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{{Short description|Indian engineer, fertilizer scientist (born 1916)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Kshitish Ranjan Chakravorty
| image = Dr. Kshitish Ranjan Chakravorty.jpg
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| caption = Kshitish Ranjan Chakravorty
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1916|2|1}}
| birth_place = [[West Bengal]], India
| death_date = {{death date and age |df=y|1994|9|29|1916|2|1}}
| death_place =
| fields = {{ublist | [[Fertilizer|Fertilizer science]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Fertilizer Corporation of India]] }}
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| known_for = {{ublist|Development of fertilizer plants in India }}
| awards = {{ublist|1954 [[Padma Shri]] | 1968 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]]}}
}}
'''Kshitish Ranjan Chakravorty''' (1 February 1916 – 29 September 1994<ref name = "Samsad">"Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan Vol.II in Bengali edited by Anjali Bose, published by Sahitya Samsad, Kolkata, India, January 2019 edition Page 101
{{ISBN|978-81-7955-292-6}}</ref>) was an Indian engineer, fertilizer scientist and the head of the Planning and Development Division of the [[Fertilizer Corporation of India]] (FCI).<ref name="Morehouse1971">{{cite book|author=Ward Morehouse|title=Science in India: Institution-building and the Organizational System for Research & Development|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QLjv80UDv4sC&pg=PA122|year=1971|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7154-501-8|pages=122–}}</ref><ref name="Sachs2013">{{cite book|author=Ignacy Sachs|title=Studies in Political Economy of Development|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T-dsBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA213|date=22 October 2013|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-1-4831-5816-7|pages=213–}}</ref> He was credited with the establishment of Planning and Development Division of FCI and with the development indigenous fertilizer plants in India.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=280 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=November 12, 2016}}</ref> Born on 1 February 1916, Chakravorty was the author of two books, ''Science Based on Symmetry, Volume 1''<ref name="Chakravorty1977">{{cite book|author=K. R. Chakravorty|title=Science Based on Symmetry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DiQKAQAAIAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Firma KLM}}</ref> and ''Energy Field of the Universe and Atom, Part 1''<ref name="Chakravorty1964">{{cite book|author=K. R. Chakravorty|title=Energy Field of the Universe and Atom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KpvkAAAAMAAJ|year=1964|publisher=s.n. Roye, technical publications officer, P & D Division, Fertilizer Corporation of India}}</ref> and he held the patent for a process on ''an ionexchange material from the acid sludge''.<ref name="Process for preparation of an ionexchange material from the acid sludge resulting from sulphuric acid washing of crude light oils">{{Cite web |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US3088924 |title=Process for preparation of an ionexchange material from the acid sludge resulting from sulphuric acid washing of crude light oils |last=Ranjan Chakravorty Kshitish |date=May 7, 1963 |website=Patent No. US3088924 A |publisher=United States Patent}}</ref> He sat in the Committee on Tachnical Consultancy Services of the Government of India<ref name="Kumar1988">{{cite book|author=Virendra Kumar|title=Committees and Commissions in India, 1947-73|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qydb7X45MzYC&pg=PR3|date=1 December 1988|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-7022-209-5|pages=3–}}</ref> and was an Indian member of the Indo-US Workshop on the Management of Organization of Industrial Research held in 1970.<ref name="BrownTellez1973">{{cite book|author1=Harrison Brown|author2=Theresa Tellez|title=National Academy of Sciences: International Development Programs of the Office of the Foreign Secretary : Summary and Analysis of Activities, 1961-1971|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0jIrAAAAYAAJ&pg=SL4-PA22|year=1973|publisher=National Academies|pages=4–|id=NAP:14684}}</ref> He received the fourth highest Indian civilian award, the [[Padma Shri]], in 1954,<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Government of India |date=2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=2015-10-15 }}</ref> making him one of the earliest recipients of the award.<ref name="Notifications">{{Cite web |url=http://www.pib.nic.in/archive/docs/DVD_02/ACC%20NO%20007-BR/RAS-1954-08-15-1838.pdf |title=Notifications |date=2016 |publisher=Government of India}}</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 for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 1968.<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=November 12, 2016}}</ref>

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