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{{Infobox scientist<br />
|name = Charusita Chakravarty <br />
|image = Charusita_Chakravarty.jpg<!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing [[brackets]] --><br />
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|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1964|05|05}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], United States<br />
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2016|03|29|1964|05|05}} <br />
|death_place = [[New Delhi]], India<br />
|nationality = Indian<br />
|field = [[Chemistry]], [[chemical physics]], theoretical & [[computational chemistry]]<br />
|work_institution = [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi]]<br />
|alma_mater = [[Delhi University]], [[Cambridge University]]<br />
|doctoral_advisor = [[David Clary]]<br />
|doctoral_students = Ruchi Sharma, Divya Nayar, Madhulika Gupta, Debdas Dabhal, Murari Singh, Anirban Mudi, Somen Chakraborty, Gaurav Shrivastav, Hariom Sharanam Yadav, Saurav Prasad, Sudeshna Kar, Pooja<br />
|known_for = <br />
|prizes = [[Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award]] (2009)<br />
|footnotes =<br />
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'''Charusita Chakravarty''' (5 May 1964 – 29 March 2016)<ref name=IAS/> was an Indian [[academic]] and [[scientist]]. She was a professor of [[chemistry]] at the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi]] since 1999. In 2009 she was conferred [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]] in the field of chemical science. In 1999, she received B.M. Birla Science Award.<ref name="Elixir of Life: Charusita Chakravarty">{{cite news|title=Elixir of Life: Charusita Chakravarty|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/indian-scientists-at-forefront-of-research-charusita-chakravarty/1/150719.html|access-date=15 March 2014|newspaper=India Today}}</ref><ref name="IIT Delhi profile">{{cite web|title=Charusita Chakravarty IIT Delhi profile|url=http://chemistry.iitd.ac.in/faculty/chakravarty.html|publisher=IIT Delhi|access-date=15 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110225220345/http://www.chemistry.iitd.ac.in/faculty/chakravarty.html|archive-date=25 February 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was an Associate Member of the Centre for Computational Material Science, [[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]], Bangalore.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/ccms/members/associate/index.html|title=CCMS|website=Jncasr.ac.in}}</ref><br />
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On 29 March 2016, Chakravarty passed after a long and arduous battle with breast cancer.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://feminisminindia.com/2019/03/29/charusita-chakravarty-chemist-sexism/|title=Charusita Chakravarty: The Chemist Who Fought Sexism in STEM {{!}} #IndianWomenInHistory|last=Pallavi|date=28 March 2019|website=Feminism in India|language=en-US|access-date=8 December 2019}}</ref><br />
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== Early life and education==<br />
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Chakravarty was born in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], U.S. on 5 May 1964 as the only daughter of [[Sukhamoy Chakraborty|Sukhamoy]] and Lalita Chakravarty. She was raised in Delhi, India and chose to give up her American citizenship in her twenties. Chakravarty was selected as the National Science Talent Scholar and went on to clear the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). She did her BSc Chemistry program from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St. Stephen's College]], [[University of Delhi]]. Having graduated from Delhi University with a gold medal, she went on to do the Natural Science Tripos from Cambridge University, UK. Following this, she joined the Doctorate of Philosophy program at Cambridge under the guidance of David Clary. Her thesis was on the spectra and dynamics of Ar–OH, an open shell system that involved a lot of nuances.{{clarify|date=May 2021|reason="a lot of nuances" is just handwaving}} Charusita then became a Post Doctoral Scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara, under Professor Horia Metiu. After a brief visit to India, she returned to Cambridge as a Gulbenkian junior research fellow in an independent post-Doctoral position.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ias.ac.in/public/Resources/Initiatives/Women_in_Science/charusita_obituary.pdf|title=Charusita Chakravarty – Obituary|website=ias.ac.in}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
In 1994 Chakravarty returned to India for good. The IITs hesitated to give her a teaching position as she did not have a master's degree, even though she had a PhD from Cambridge. She did get an offer from IIT Kanpur, and then went on to accept a position in IIT Delhi's Department of Chemistry, where she continued to teach till her death.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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Soon after joining IIT Delhi, she submitted a research proposal to the Department of Science and Technoogy and having received funding easily, carried on with her research. Her initial work was related to atomic and molecular clusters and over the course of her career, she became famous for her specialised application of path integral Monte Carlo simulation to unravel quantum mechanical effects in the properties of atomic and molecular clusters.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}<br />
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Her fields of interest also included theoretical chemistry and chemical physics, the structure and dynamics of Liquids, water and hydration, nucleation and self-assembly. International and national journals have published her articles and she was widely known for her single-author papers, published extensively over the course of her career.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}} A few of her co-written works include, ''Multiple Time-scale Behaviour of the Hydrogen Bond Network in Water'' (2004), ''Estimating the entropy of liquids from atom-atom radial distribution functions: silica, beryllium fluoride and water'' (2008), and ''Excess entropy scaling of transport properties in network-forming ionic melts'' (2011).<br />
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== Research fields ==<br />
Chakravarty worked in the following fields—<ref name="IIT Delhi profile" /><br />
* [[Theoretical chemistry]] and [[chemical physics]]<br />
* Classical and quantum Monte Carlo<br />
* [[Molecular dynamics]]<br />
* Structure and Dynamics of Liquids<br />
* Water and hydration<br />
* [[Nucleation]]<br />
* Self-assembly<br />
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== Selected publications ==<br />
Here is a list of selected publications and collaborative research works where Chakravarty has worked—<ref name="IIT Delhi profile" /><br />
# Agarwal, M., Singh, M., Jabes, S. B., and Charusita Chakravarty, ''Excess entropy scaling of transport properties in network-forming ionic melts (SiO2 and BeF2).'' J. Chem. Phys. 2011, 134, 014502<br />
# Sharma, R., Agarwal, M. and Charusita, C. ''Estimating the entropy of liquids from atom-atom radial distribution functions: silica, beryllium fluoride and water.'' Mol. Phys. 2008, 106, 1925.<br />
# Agarwal, M. and Chakravarty, C. ''Waterlike structural and excess entropy anomalies in liquid beryllium fluoride.'' J. Phys. Chem. B, 2007, 111, 13294.<br />
# Sharma, R., Nath, Chakraborty, S. N. and Charusita C. ''Entropy, Diffusivity and Structural Order in Liquids with Water-like Anomalies.'' J. Chem. Phys. 2006, 125, 204501.<br />
# Mudi, A.; Chakravarty,C. ''Multiple Time-scale Behaviour of the Hydrogen Bond Network in Water.'' J. Phys. Chem. B, 2004, 108, 19607.<br />
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== Awards and achievements ==<br />
* Medal for Young Scientists from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) (1996)<ref name=":0" /><br />
*[[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]] (2009)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/SSB_AW_2009.PDF |title=Archived copy |access-date=29 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327055701/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/SSB_AW_2009.PDF |archive-date=27 March 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
* B.M. Birla Science Award (1999)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100613014531/http://isro.org/pressrelease/scripts/pressreleasein.aspx?Dec18_2001]</ref><br />
* [[Indian National Science Academy]] Medal for Young Scientists (1996)<ref name="insa">{{cite web|url=http://www.insaindia.org/youngmedal.php|title=INSA Medal Recipients For YOUNG SCIENTISTS|date=19 September 2015|website=Insaindia.org|access-date=29 March 2014|archive-url=https://archive.is/20131011230428/http://www.insaindia.org/youngmedal.php|archive-date=11 October 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
* Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Award of [[Indian National Science Academy]] (1999)<ref name="insa"/><br />
* Fellowship of [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] (2006)<ref name=IAS>{{cite web|title=Fellow Profile – Chakravarty, Prof. Charusita|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Chakravarty,_Prof._Charusita|website=Ias.ac.in|access-date=23 January 2016|location=Bangalore}}</ref><br />
* Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)]] (2004)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dst.gov.in/scientific-programme/ser-hr-deve-awards.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=4 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912180638/http://www.dst.gov.in/scientific-programme/ser-hr-deve-awards.htm |archive-date=12 September 2013 }}</ref><br />
*Served as a member of the ''Abdus Salam International Center'' for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (1996–2003)<ref name=":0" /><br />
*Associate Member of the ''Centre for Computational Material Science'', ''Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research'', Bangalore.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Other sources==<br />
* [http://www.ias.ac.in/womeninscience/LD_essays/71-74.pdf Autobiographical article by Charusita Chakravarty in Lilavati's Daughters]<br />
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/photo/profile-of-top-25-scientists-in-india-366262-2011-09-11 |title=Profile of Top 25 scientists in India |date=11 September 2011 |website=India Today |language=en-US |access-date=17 January 2018}}<br />
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