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{{Infobox scientist<br />
| name = Deb Shankar Ray<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1954|1|2}}<br />
| birth_place = [[West Bengal]], India<br />
| residence = [[Kolkata]], West Bengal, India<br />
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]<br />
| fields = {{ublist | [[Physical chemistry]] }}<br />
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Jadavpur University]] | [[Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science]] | [[Rajabazar Science College]] | [[Calcutta University]] | [[Vidyasagar University]] }}<br />
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Rajabazar Science College]]<br> ([[University of Calcutta]]) }}<br />
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist | [[Mihir Chowdhury]] }}<br />
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| known_for = Studies on non-linear dynamics and spectroscopy<br />
| awards = {{ublist | 1984&nbsp;[[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Young Scientist Award | 1999&nbsp;[[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] }}<br />
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'''Deb Shankar Ray''' (born 1954) is an Indian physical chemist and professor at the department of physical chemistry of the [[Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science]], Kolkata.<ref name="Deb Shankar Ray">{{Cite web |url=http://mailweb.iacs.res.in/physchem/pcdsr/ |title=Deb Shankar Ray |date=2016 |website=Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science}}</ref> He is known for his researches on non-linear dynamics and theoretical [[spectroscopy]]<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=16 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and is an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]]<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=P14-1660 |title=Indian fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology<ref name="WAST fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://iicb.res.in/wast/fellow_wast.pdf |title=WAST fellows |date=2016 |publisher=West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology}}</ref> and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Ray,_Prof._Deb_Shankar |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1999, for his contributions to chemical sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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D. S. Ray, born on 2 January 1954 in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]], after securing a PhD from [[Rajabazar Science College]], [[Calcutta University]] for his thesis on ''Time resolved spectroscopy'',<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Ray=3ADeb_Shankar=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> started his career as a lecturer at [[Jadavpur University]] in 1984.<ref name="Faculty profile">{{Cite web |url=http://mailweb.iacs.res.in/physchem/pcdsr/carrier.html |title=Faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=IACS}}</ref> He worked at the university for two years when he was appointed as a senior lecturer at the [[Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science]] in 1986 where he spent the rest of his career. During this period, he held various positions such as that of a reader (1991–97), professor (1997–2002), head of the department (2002–05), senior professor (2005–09) and dean of academics (2009–10). He also serves as an honorary faculty at [[University of Calcutta]] and [[Vidyasagar University]].<ref name="Faculty profile" /><br />
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== Legacy ==<br />
Ray is known to have done extensive research on theoretical spectroscopy and nonlinear dynamics.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=5 October 2016 | pages=34 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="GuptaGhosh2015">{{cite book|author1=Subhasish Dutta Gupta|author2=Nirmalya Ghosh|author3=Ayan Banerjee|title=Wave Optics: Basic Concepts and Contemporary Trends|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TXi9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA345|date=15 October 2015|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4822-3774-0|pages=345–}}</ref> He is also known to be an inspirinf teacher. His later researches at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science were focused on spin bath processes on which he has written numerous articles.<ref name="Browse by Fellow"/> His researches have been published as one book, ''Quantum Brownian Motion in C-Numbers: Theory And Applications'',<ref name="Quantum Brownian Motion in C-Numbers: Theory And Applications">{{Cite book |url=https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Brownian-Motion-C-Numbers-Applications/dp/1594546118 |title=Quantum Brownian Motion in C-Numbers: Theory And Applications |last= Debashis Barik, Dhruba Banerjee, Deb Shankar Ray |publisher=[[Nova Science Publishers, Inc.]] |isbn=978-1594546112 |publication-date=30 December 2009 |page=125}}</ref> as chapters to books authored by others<ref name="Inguva2012">{{cite book|author=R. Inguva|title=Recent Developments in Quantum Optics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=baHfBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA347|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4615-2936-1|pages=347–}}</ref> as well as several peer-reviewed scientific articles; [[Google Scholar]], an online repository of science articles, has listed 181 of them.<ref name="Ray on Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uStgXIwAAAAJ&hl=en |title=Ray on Google Scholar |date=2016 |publisher=Google Scholar}}</ref> He has mentored several doctoral scholars in their studies<ref name="Alumni details">{{Cite web |url=http://iacs.res.in/alumni_physical_chemistry.html |title=Alumni details |date=2016 |publisher=IACS}}</ref><ref name="LinVillaeys1993">{{cite book|author1=S. H. Lin|author2=A. A. Villaeys|author3=Y. Fujimura|title=Advances in Multiphoton Processes and Spectroscopy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7y5qDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA191|year=1993|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-02-1543-9|pages=191–}}</ref> and is a member of the national organizing committee of the Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (CNSD).<ref name="National Organizing Committee">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ncnsd.org/noc.php |title=National Organizing Committee |date=2016 |publisher=Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (CNSD)}}</ref><br />
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== Awards and honors ==<br />
Ray, a national scholarship holder during 1970–73,<ref name="Faculty profile" /> received the Young Scientist Award of the Indian National Science Academy in 1984.<ref name="Young Scientist Award">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/youngmedal.php |title=Young Scientist Award |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1999.<ref name="Chemical Sciences">{{cite web | url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | title=Chemical Sciences | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=2016 | access-date=7 November 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912012851/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | archive-date=12 September 2012 }}</ref> He was elected by the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] as their fellow in 1995.<ref name="Fellow profile" /> and he became an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 2014.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> He is also an elected fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Sciences.<ref name="WAST fellows" /> He was the Acting Director of IACS, Kolkata from 2013 to 2015.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Spectroscopy]]<br />
* [[Nonlinear system]]<br />
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