# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yamuna-krishnan
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:23.329Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/yamuna-krishnan"
name: "Yamuna Krishnan"
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description: "Yamuna Krishnan is a professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, where she has worked since August 2014. She was earlier a Reader in National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India. Krishnan won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology, the highest science award in India in the year 2013 in the Chemical Science category. In 2024, she was named the Louis Block Professor of Chemistry and the college."
tagline: "Indian-American Scientist and professor"
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gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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birthDate: "1974-05-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump