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| name = Animesh Chakraborty<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1935|6|30}}<br />
| birth_place = Calcutta, [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj]]<br><small>(now [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], India)</small><br />
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| residence = [[India]]<br />
| nationality = [[India]]n<br />
| alma_mater = [[Calcutta University]] (BSc, MSc, PhD) <br />
| field = [[Coordination complex]],<br />
| work_institution = [[Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science]] <br> [[University of Calcutta]]<br />
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| religion = [[Hindu]]<br />
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'''Animesh Chakravorty''' [[Indian National Science Academy|FNA]], [[Indian Academy of Sciences|FASc]] (born 30 June 1935) is a [[Bengali people|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]].<ref name="Rao2010">{{cite book|last=Rao|first=C N R|title=Climbing the Limitless Ladder: A Life in Chemistry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ajEFddmiDUC&pg=PA58|date=2010-06-01|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4307-86-4|page=58}}</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
After his graduation from the [[Scottish Church College]], he did his post-graduation and doctorate in chemistry from the renowned [[Rajabazar Science College]] campus of [[University of Calcutta]].<ref>''Some Alumni of Scottish Church College'' in ''175th Year Commemoration Volume''. Scottish Church College, April 2008. page 584</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
He had started as a research associate at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] and [[Harvard University|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 Limited|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.<br />
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==Prizes and honours==<br />
*[[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]]<br />
*[[TWAS Prize]]<br />
*[[Honorary degree|Honorary doctorate]], DSc honoris causa, [[University of Burdwan]]<br />
*[[Indian National Science Academy]] Golden Jubilee Research Professorship<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://archive.is/20130108063001/http://www.iacs.res.in/inorg/icac/ Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS)]<br />
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