Animesh Chakravorty

Prof. Animesh Chakravorty
Born	June 30, 1935 (1935-06-30) (age 76) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Residence	India
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Coordination complex,
Institutions	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science,

Animesh Chakravorty (born June 30, 1935) is a chemist.^[1] He was awarded his PhD from Calcutta University and was Research Associate MIT and Harvard; Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Professor and Head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, IACS; Visiting Professor Texas A&M University; Hindustan Lever Research Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. 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.

1 Prizes and Honours
2 Lecture Awards
3 Fellowships
4 International Editorial Works
5 Some Other Functions
6 References
7 External links

Prizes and Honours

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology.
Third World Academy of Sciences Prize.
Honorary doctorate, DSc honoris causa (Burdwan University).
INSA Golden Jubilee Research Professorship.
Nehru Chair, University of Hyderabad.
Gold Medal, Chemical Research Society of India .
Gold Medal, Indian Chemical Society.
T. R. Sheshadri Commemoration Medal(INSA), Acharya J. C. Ghosh Medal(ICS), R. C. Mehrotra Commemoration Medal(ISCA).

Lecture Awards

Numerous lecture awards including Ajit Memorial Lecture(IACS), Baba Kartar Singh Lecture(Punjab University), CV Raman Lectures(DAE), National Lectures(UGC), Platinum Jubilee Lecture(ISCA), Sahasrabudhey Lectures(Nagpur University), RK Barua and Golden Jubilee Lectures(Gauhati University), AVRR Foundation Lecture(JNCASR), Foundation Day Lectures(IICT and CLRI), Distinguished Lecture Series(IITK) etc. Many plenary lectures and addresses abroad.

Fellowships

Fellow Indian National Science Academy.
Fellow Indian Academy of Sciences.
Fellow Third World Academy of Sciences.
Honorary Fellow, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Honorary Fellow, Indian Chemical Society.

International Editorial Works

Member of Editorial Advisory Boards of Inorganica Chimica Acta, Dalton Transactions (RSC), Inorganic Chemistry (ACS), Indian Journal of Chemistry, Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry, 2nd Edition (10 Volumes, Elsevier), etc.

Some Other Functions

President, Chemical Research Society of India. Elected Bureau Member, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

References

^ Rao, C N R (2010-06-01). Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry. World Scientific. pp. 58–. ISBN 9789814307864. http://books.google.com/books?id=-ajEFddmiDUC&pg=PA58. Retrieved 14 May 2011.

External links

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS)

Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Science

Recipients	T.R. Govindachari (1960) Asima Chatterjee (1961) S.C. Bhattacharyya (1962) B.D. Tilak (1963) Sukh Dev (1964) Sadhan Basu & R.C. Mehrotra (1965) N.A. Ramaiah (1966) Santappa (1967) C.N.R. Rao (1968) A.C. Jain (1969) P.T. Narasimhan (1970) M.M. Dhar (1971) S.V. Kessar & A.P.B. Sinha (1972) M.V. George & H.B. Mathur(1973) U. R. Ghatak & K. Nagarajan(1974) D. S. Bhakuni & Animesh Chakravorty(1975) Devadas Devaprabhakara (1976) Mihir Chowdhury & S. Ranganathan(1977) Girjesh Govil & Goverdhan Mehta (1978) D. Balasubramanian & B. M. Deb (1981) C. L. Khetrapal & G. S. R. Subba Rao (1982) Samaresh Mitra & Naba Kishore Ray (1983) Paramasivan Natarajan & K. J. Rao (1984) P.Balaram (1986) Debashis Mukherjee (1987) Kaushal Kishore (1988) Srinivasan Chandrasekaran & M. K. Chaudhuri (1989) B. M. Choudary & N. Sathyamurthy (1990) Biman Bagchi & J. S. Yadav (1991) Sumit Bhaduri & Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha (1992) S. R. Gadre & T. Ramasami (1993) E. D. Jemmis & D. D. Sarma (1994) Jayaraman Chandrasekhar & K. L. Sebastian (1995) Narayanan Chandrakumar & Mariappan Periasamy (1996) Kankan Bhattacharyya & Adusumilli Srikrishna (1997) A.R. Chakravarty & K. N. Ganesh (1998) Sourav Pal (2000) Uday Maitra (2001) Murali Sastry (2002) T. K. Chakraborty (2003) Srinivasan Sampath & K George Thomas (2006) Amalendu Chandra & A Ajayghosh (2007) T. Pradeep & Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy (2008) Charusita Chakravarty & Narayanaswamy Jayaraman(2009) Swapan K Pati & Sandeep Verma (2010) Balasubramanian Sundaram & Garikapati Narahari Sastry (2011)

All the branches	Biological Science Chemical Science Engineering Science Mathematical Science Medical Science Physical Science Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences

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Name	Chakravorty, Animesh
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Date of birth	June 30, 1935
Place of birth	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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