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Kshitish Ranjan Chakravorty (1 February 1916 – 29 September 1994[1]) was an Indian engineer, fertilizer scientist and the head of the Planning and Development Division of the Fertilizer Corporation of India (FCI).[2][3] He was credited with the establishment of Planning and Development Division of FCI and with the development indigenous fertilizer plants in India.[4] Born on 1 February 1916, Chakravorty was the author of two books, Science Based on Symmetry, Volume 1[5] and Energy Field of the Universe and Atom, Part 1[6] and he held the patent for a process on an ionexchange material from the acid sludge.[7] He sat in the Committee on Tachnical Consultancy Services of the Government of India[8] and was an Indian member of the Indo-US Workshop on the Management of Organization of Industrial Research held in 1970.[9] He received the fourth highest Indian civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 1954,[10] making him one of the earliest recipients of the award.[11] 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.[12]
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- ↑ "Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan Vol.II in Bengali edited by Anjali Bose, published by Sahitya Samsad, Kolkata, India, January 2019 edition Page 101 Template:ISBN
- ↑ Science in India: Institution-building and the Organizational System for Research & Development{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1971). ISBN 978-81-7154-501-8
- ↑ Studies in Political Economy of Development{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Elsevier(22 October 2013). ISBN 978-1-4831-5816-7
- ↑ Brief Profile of the Awardee. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize(2016). Retrieved November 12, 2016.
- ↑ Science Based on Symmetry{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Firma KLM(1977)
- ↑ Energy Field of the Universe and Atom{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. s.n. Roye, technical publications officer, P & D Division, Fertilizer Corporation of India(1964)
- ↑ Process for preparation of an ionexchange material from the acid sludge resulting from sulphuric acid washing of crude light oils, Ranjan Chakravorty Kshitish. Patent No. US3088924 A. United States Patent(May 7, 1963).
- ↑ Committees and Commissions in India, 1947-73{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Concept Publishing Company(1 December 1988). ISBN 978-81-7022-209-5
- ↑ National Academy of Sciences: International Development Programs of the Office of the Foreign Secretary : Summary and Analysis of Activities, 1961-1971{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. National Academies(1973)
- ↑ Padma Shri. Government of India(2016).
- ↑ Notifications. Government of India(2016).
- ↑ View Bhatnagar Awardees. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize(2016). Retrieved November 12, 2016.