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Obituary: Kal R. Sharma

by Linda Wang
November 6, 2017 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 95, Issue 44

Kal R. Sharma, 52, died on Sept. 11, 2016, in Cypress, Texas.

“Kal Sharma was an avid debater during his school days and a key member of his high school athletics team (hammer throw was his event). He went on to represent his college in intercollegiate athletic meets. He is the author of several books, including “Nanostructuring Operations in Nanoscale Science and Engineering,” “Transport Phenomena in Biomedical Engineering: Artificial Organ Design and Development and Tissue Engineering,” and “Bioinformatics: Sequence Alignment and Markov Models.”—Ven Kalyanaraman Sharma, brother

Most recent title: adjunct professor, San Jacinto College

Education: B.Tech., chemical engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 1985; Ph.D., chemical engineering, West Virginia University

Survivors: father, Subarayan Kalyanaraman; mother, Shyamala; brothers, Kalyanaraman Sivasankaran and Ven Kalyanaraman Sharma

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