Swapan Kumar Pati

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1968|12|7}}

| birth_place = Paschim Medinipur district, West Bengal, India

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| nationality = Indian

| fields = {{ublist | Quantum chemistry }}

| workplaces = {{ublist | Midnapore College | Kalyani University | Indian Institute of Science | Northwestern University }}

| alma_mater = {{ublist | Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research }}

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| known_for = Studies on electronic optical and magnetic phenomena in molecular systems

| awards = {{ublist | 2006 Materials Research Society of India Medal | 2007 CRSI Bronze Medal |

2012 TWAS Prize | 2008 Birla Science Prize | 2009 CSJ Distinguished Lectureship Award | 2010 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize }}

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Swapan Kumar Pati (born 7 December 1968) is an Indian quantum chemist, a professor of the department of chemistry at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and the head of the Quantum Theory Molecules to Materials Group at the institute.{{Cite web |url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/pati |title=Quantum Theory Molecules to Materials Group |date=2016 |publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research}} He is known for his studies on electronic optical and magnetic phenomena in molecular systems{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=130 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}} and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences,{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Pati,_Prof._Swapan_Kumar |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}} National Academy of Sciences, India{{Cite web |url=http://nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=P |title=NASI fellows |date=2016 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India}} and The World Academy of Sciences.{{Cite web |url=http://twas.org/member/pati-swapan-kumar |title=TWAS Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences}} 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 2010, 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 | access-date=12 November 2016}}

Biography

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Born on 7 December 1968 in Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal,{{Cite web |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101206/jsp/knowhow/story_13261880.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322090438/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101206/jsp/knowhow/story_13261880.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 March 2014 |title=Small is Big |date=6 December 2010 |publisher=The Telegraph}} S. K. Pati did his graduate studies in chemistry at Midnapore College of the Vidyasagar University and passed a master's degree from Kalyani University.{{Cite web |url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/~pati/profile/ |title=Faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research}} Subsequently, he moved to Bengaluru to pursue his doctoral studies at Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science{{Cite web |url=https://alumni.iisc.ernet.in/profile/view/swapan-kumar-pati |title=IISc Alumnus |date=2016 |publisher=IISc Alumni Association}} and completed his post-doctoral work at University of California, Davis and Northwestern University. On his return to India, he joined the Theoretical Sciences Unit of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research as a member of faculty where he serves as a professor and the head of the Quantum Theory Molecules to Materials Group.

Legacy

Pati's researches fall into five major areas; Quantum Magnetism, Optical and Opto-electronic Properties, Transport in Nanostructures and Biomolecular Systems, Hydrogen Storage in Organic Molecular Solids and New Carbon based Materials{{Cite web |url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/~pati/research/ |title=Research Areas |date=2016 |publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research}} and his studies are reported to have widened the understanding of electronic optical and magnetic phenomena in molecular systems.{{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}} The process developed by him for the preparation of Julolidine conjugates{{Cite journal |last=Maity D, Manna AK, Karthigeyan D, Kundu TK, Pati SK, Govindaraju T. |title=Visible-near-infrared and fluorescent copper sensors based on julolidine conjugates: selective detection and fluorescence imaging in living cells |journal=Chemistry: A European Journal |year=2011 |publication-date=September 2011 |volume=17 |issue=40 |pages=11152–61 |doi=10.1002/chem.201101906 |pmid=21882277}} have earned him a patent.{{Cite web |url=http://patents.justia.com/inventor/swapan-kumar-pati |title=Patents |date=2016 |publisher=Justia Patents}} His researches have been documented by way of a number of peer-reviewed articles;{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Verma=3ASandeep=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/~pati/publications/ |title=List of publications |date=2016 |publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research}} Google Scholar, an online article repository of scientific articles, has listed 292 of them.{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pGGFotsAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2016 |publisher=Google Scholar}} He is a member of American Physical Society, American Chemical Society and The World Academy of Sciences. He sits in the editorial board of Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research and has served as an advisory board member of Journal of Materials Chemistry of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Journal of Physical Chemistry of American Chemical Society, both during 2009–11.

; Patents

{{Cite web |url=http://patents.justia.com/inventor/swapan-kumar-pati |title=Julolidine conjugates and methods for their preparation and use |date=2016 |publisher=Justia Patents}}

Awards and honors

Pati, who is a junior associate at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics since 2003, received the MRSI Medal of the Materials Research Society of India in 2006{{Cite web |url=http://www.mrsi.org.in/awardshonours.php |title=MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2006 |date=2016 |publisher=Materials Research Society of India}} and the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2007.{{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 |access-date=5 December 2016 |archive-date=16 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016123938/http://www.crsi.org.in/index.php/crsi-awards/year-1999-2008 |url-status=dead }} The World Academy of Sciences selected him as a Young Affiliate the same year; TWAS would honor him again with an elected fellowship in 2010 and with the TWAS Prize in 2012.{{Cite web |url=http://twas.org/sites/default/files/07-prizes-20-25.pdf |title=TWAS Prize |date=2016 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences}} In between, he received the Swaranjayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology in 2006, the Birla Science Prize in 2008{{Cite web |url=http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/awards/birlaSciencePrizes/ |title=B. M. Birla Science Prize |date=2016 |publisher=B. M. Birla Science Centre}} and the Distinguished Lectureship Award of the Chemical Society of Japan in 2009. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2010{{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 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912012851/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | archive-date=2012-09-12 }} and he was elected as a fellow by the by Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2010.

References

External links

{{Cite web |url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/~pati/publications/ |title=List of publications |date=2016 |publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research}}

Category:Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Science

Category:1966 births

Category:Scientists from West Bengal

Category:Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences

Category:20th-century Indian chemists

Category:Living people

Category:Fellows of the National Academy of Sciences, India

Category:People from Paschim Medinipur district

Category:Vidyasagar University alumni

Category:University of Kalyani alumni

Category:Indian Institute of Science alumni

Category:University of California, Davis alumni