Akhil Ranjan Chakravarty

Akhil Ranjan Chakravarty (born 20 May 1953) is an Indian organic chemist and a professor at the department of inorganic and physical chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science. He is known for his researches on reactivity and bonding in multicentered systems and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian 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 1998, for his contributions to chemical sciences.

Biography

A. R. Chakravarty, born on 20 May 1953 in Burdwan, a historic city in the Indian state of West Bengal, graduated in chemistry from the University of Burdwan in 1973 and completed a master's degree from the same university in 1975, passing both the examinations with first rank. Enrolling for doctoral studies at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science under the guidance of Animesh Chakravorty, a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, he secured a PhD from the Science College, Calcutta University in 1982. His work on diruthenium complexes demonstrated the link between the chemistry of complexes of basic acetate structure and multiple bonded diruthenium complexes. AceMap, an online article repository, has listed a number of them. He has mentored more than 20 doctoral scholars in their studies and has sat in the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Chemistry (Section A) and the Journal of Chemical Science. He became an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2006 and received the Silver Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2007. He was also a J. C. Bose National Fellow in 2008.