Naba Kishore Ray

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| birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1940|12|5}}

| birth_place = Odisha, India

| death_date = {{death date and age |df=yes|2013|5|8 |1940|12|5}}

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| nationality = Indian

| fields = {{ublist | Theoretical chemistry | Computational chemistry }}

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| known_for = Studies on structure of molecules

| awards = {{ublist | 1983 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize }}

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Naba Kishore Ray (1940- 2013){{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/deceased.htm |title=Deceased Honorary Fellows, Foreign Fellows and Fellows |access-date=5 April 2018 |archive-date=28 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528102550/http://www.nasi.org.in/deceased.htm |url-status=dead }} was an Indian theoretical and computational chemist, known for his studies on structure of molecules.{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=18 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}} Born on 5 December 1940 in the Indian state of Odisha,{{Cite web |url=http://www.odiya.org/personality/personality.shtml |title=Odiya Celebrities |date=2016 |publisher=Odiya.org |access-date=1 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306153914/http://www.odiya.org/personality/personality.shtml |archive-date=6 March 2014 |url-status=dead }} he studied molecules using molecular orbital and floating spherical gaussian orbital methods and his work on the nature of electron density and momentum distribution in atoms and molecules as well as molecular reactivitity on surfaces are reported to have widened the understanding of the subjects.{{Cite web |url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=1 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }} 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 1983, for his contributions to chemical sciences.{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=12 November 2016}}