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K.T. Augusti, biochemist and academician, passed distant successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Wednesday aged 93.
Dr. Augusti is noted for his enactment connected plant-derived nutraceuticals, and is considered a pioneer successful the probe connected the medicinal properties of ail and different Allium species.
A autochthonal of Pala, helium earned his PhD successful Biochemistry from BITS Pilani and devoted much than 4 decades to teaching and probe successful India and abroad, including the University of Kerala and the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria.
He was besides the laminitis wide caput of the Kerala Academy of Sciences and helped to found it arsenic a technological movement. After his retirement, helium continued to people essays, poetry, and humanities writings.
He is survived by his woman Alice, sons Thomas Augustine, Jose Augustine and Paul Augustine.
