Nationality Pakistani Residence India | Name Animesh Chakravorty | |
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Born 30 June 1935 (age 89) Kolkata, West Bengal, India ( 1935-06-30 ) Institutions Indian Association for the Cultivation of ScienceUniversity of Calcutta |
Animesh Chakraborty (born 30 June 1935) is a Bengali Indian academic and a professor of chemistry. In 1975, he was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in chemistry by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Contents
- Early life and education
- Career
- Prizes and honours
- Lecture awards
- Fellowships
- International editorial works
- Some other functions
- References
Early life and education
After his graduation from the Scottish Church College, he did his post-graduation from the University of Calcutta. He had subsequently earned a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Calcutta.
Career
He had started as a research associate at the MIT and Harvard. He had also served as professor and head of the department of chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and as professor and head of the department of inorganic chemistry at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science at the University of Calcutta, and as a visiting professor at the Texas A&M University. He was also the Hindustan Lever Research Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. He had guided fifty eight PhD's and numerous postdoctoral associates, many of the former students have become well known personalities and are doing outstanding work in academic and industrial organizations in India and abroad.
Prizes and honours
Lecture awards
Fellowships
International editorial works
He has been a member of the editorial advisory boards of Inorganica Chemica Acta, Dalton Transactions (RSC), Inorganic Chemistry (ACS), Indian Journal of Chemistry, Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry, 2nd Edition (10 Volumes, Elsevier), etc.
Some other functions
He has also served as a past president of the Chemical Research Society of India, and as an elected bureau member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.