Samaresh Bhattacharya
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{{Short description|Indian chemist and professor (born 1960)}}
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| birth_place = West Bengal, India
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| nationality = Indian
| fields = {{ublist | Inorganic chemistry | Organometallic chemistry }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | Jadavpur University }}
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| known_for = Studies on the Platinum Group Metals
| awards = {{ublist | 2005 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | 2006 CRSI Bronze Medal }}
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Samaresh Bhattacharya (born 1960) is an Indian inorganic and organometallic chemist and a professor of the department of chemistry at Jadavpur University.{{Cite web |url=http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/view_department.php?deptid=64 |title=Department :: Chemistry |date=2016 |publisher=Jadavpur University}} He also serves as a dean of the faculty of science at the university.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sxccal.edu/announcements/downloads/Forthcoming-Seminar-FOCB-II-2017-24Nov2016.pdf |title=International Symposium |date=2016 |publisher=St. Xavier's College, Kolkata}} He is known for his studies on the coordination compounds of the Platinum Group Metals with regard to their use in the activation of organic molecules.{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=404 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}} He is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Bhattacharya,_Prof._Samaresh |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}} and the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology.{{Cite web |url=http://iicb.res.in/wast/fellow_wast.pdf |title=WAST fellows |date=2016 |publisher=West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology}} 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 2005, 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}}
Biography
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Samaresh Bhattacharya, born on 24 August 1960 in the Indian state of West Bengal, did his graduate studies at Jadavpur University. After passing his BSc in chemistry in 1978, he continued at the institution to complete his master's degree in 1980.{{Cite web |url=http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/profile.php?uid=18 |title=Faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=Jadavpur University}} His doctoral studies were at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) from where he secured a PhD in 1986 and joined Jadavpur University as a faculty at the department of chemistry. He has been serving the institution ever since and is a professor of inorganic chemistry and the dean of faculty of science.
Legacy and honors
Bhattacharya's research has been focused on the Platinum Group of Metals comprising ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum and he has studied their uses in activating organic molecules.{{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}} He has documented his research in several peer-reviewed articles;{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Bhattacharya=3ASamaresh=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}} ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 137 of them.{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samaresh_Bhattacharya2 |title=On ResearchGate |date=2016 }} He is on the Subject Expert Committee for Chemical Sciences of the Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure in Universities and other Higher Educational Institutions (FIST Program) constituted by the Department of Science and Technology.{{Cite web |url=http://www.fist-dst.org/html-flies/about-us/OM-FIST-Expert%20Committees-June-2016.pdf |title=FIST Program |date=2016}} He was a guest editor of the Special Issue Dedicated to Acharya P. C. Ray published by the Indian Journal of Chemistry - Sec A in 2011.{{Cite web |url=http://www.niscair.res.in/ScienceCommunication/sci.asp?a=topframe.htm&b=leftcon.asp&c=ResearchJournals/rejour/ijca/ijca0.asp&d=test1 |title=Special Issue Dedicated to Acharya P C Ray |last=Indian Journal of Chemistry - Sec A |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research}} He is a former member of the Sectional Committee for Chemical Sciences of the Executive Council of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology during 2012–13.{{Cite web |url=http://iicb.res.in/wast/present_council.html |title=WAST Executive Council (2013-14) |date=2016 |publisher=West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology}} He has participated in several symposiums as an invited speaker and is a member of the National Organizing Committee of the Fifth Symposium on Advanced Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SABIC-2017), organized by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and scheduled to be held in January 2017.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tifr.res.in/~SABIC/about.html |title=National Organizing Committee |publisher=Tata Institute of Fundamental Research}}
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2005.{{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 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912012851/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | archivedate=2012-09-12 }} He received the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2006{{Cite web |url=http://www.crsi.org.in/index.php/crsi-awards/year-1999-2008 |title=CRSI Bronze Medal |date=2016 |publisher=Chemical Research Society of India}} and he was elected as a fellow by the Indian Academy of Sciences the same year. He is also an elected fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology.
See also
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References
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External links
- {{Cite web |author1=Paramita Majumder |author2=Piyali Paul |author3=Poulami Sengupta |author4=Samaresh Bhattacharya |url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0022328X/736 |title=Formation of organopalladium complexes via C–Br and C–C bond activation. Application in C–C and C–N coupling reactions |date=2013 |publisher=Journal of Organometallic Chemistry}}
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Category:Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Science
Category:Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
Category:20th-century Indian chemists
Category:Jadavpur University alumni
Category:Indian inorganic chemists