Narayan Sadashiv Hosmane

Hosmane was born in Gokarna, Uttar Kannada district, India, in 1948, to a Havyaka Brahmin family. He earned his high school diploma from Bhadrakali High School, Gokarna in 1964, and attended Dr. A. V. Baliga college, Kumta, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with Botany as a minor. He is married to Sumathy Rao, who is from a Konkani-speaking family. They have a daughter and a son. == Academic career ==

Hosmane earned a Master of Science degree from Karnataka University, India. After postdoctoral research at Queen's University Belfast, he joined the Lambeg Industrial Research Institute in Northern Ireland, and then moved to the United States to study carboranes and metallacarboranes. == Professional career ==

== Professional affiliations ==

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (CChem FRSC) • Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists (FAIC) • Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) • Member of the Sigma Xi Society • Member of the International Council on Main Group Chemistry, Inc. (ICMGC) == Boards and editorships ==

• Section Editor of Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 2003–present • International Editorial Advisory Board for Organometallics, a journal of the American Chemical Society, Jan 2006–present • Regional Editor of Molecules, an international Internet journal. • Editorial boards, Main Group Metal Chemistry (1999 – present) and Main Group Chemistry (2006 – present) • Guest Editor, Special Issue of the Applied Organometallic Chemistry – Main Group Metal Compounds commemorating 65th birthday of Professor Thomas P. Fehlner entitled "Recent Advances in Inorganometallic Chemistry" published by Wiley-VCH, in April / May 2003.  • Guest Editor, Special Issue of the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry commemorating 70th birthday of Professor Sheldon G. Shore entitled "From Borane Cages to Metal Clusters: Recent Developments," published by Elsevier Science, in November 2000. • Guest Editor, Special Issue of Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon Volume 87, Numbers 1–4, 1994) entitled "Symposium on Recent Advances in the Chemistry of the Main-Group Elements," Austin, Texas, 24–27 October 1993, published by Gordon and Breach. == Honors and awards ==