Bengali chemist, educationist, nationalist, industrialist and philanthropist
Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray
CIE, FNI, FRASB, FIAS, FCS
Born
Prafulla Chandra Ray
2 August 1861
Dighalia, Bengal, British India
Died
16 June 1944(1944-06-16) (aged 82)
Calcutta, Bengal, British India
Nationality
British Indian
Alma mater
University of Calcutta (B.A.) University of Edinburgh (B.Sc., D.Sc.)
Awards
Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)
Knight Bachelor
Fellow of the Chemical Society (FCS)[1]
Foundation Fellow of the National Institute of Sciences of India (FNI)[note 1]
Fellow of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (FIAS)
Scientific career
Fields
Inorganic chemistry
Organic chemistry
History of chemistry
Institutions
Presidency College, Calcutta
Calcutta University College of Science (also known as Rajabazar Science College)
Thesis
Conjugated Sulphates of the Copper-Magnesium Group: A Study of Isomorphous Mixtures and Molecular Combinations (1887)
Doctoral advisor
Alexander Crum Brown
Notable students
Satyendranath Bose Meghnad Saha Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee Jnan Chandra Ghosh
Signature
Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray, CIE, FNI, FRASB, FIAS, FCS (also spelled Prafulla Chandra Rây and Prafulla Chandra Roy; Bengali: প্রফুল্ল চন্দ্র রায়Praphulla Chandra Rāy; 2 August 1861 – 16 June 1944)[2] was an Indian chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist.[2] He established the first modern Indian research school in chemistry (post classical age) and is regarded as the Father of Indian Chemistry.[3]
The Royal Society of Chemistry honoured his life and work with the first ever Chemical Landmark Plaque outside Europe. He was the founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company. He is the author of A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century (1902).
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^ ab"Obituary: Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray". Journal of the Indian Chemical Society. XXI: 253–260. 1944.
^Uma Dasgupta (2011). Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, C. 1784–1947. Pearson Education India. p. 137. ISBN 978-81-317-2818-5.
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