Chaitanyamoy Ganguly

Chaitanyamoy Ganguly is an Indian nuclear scientist and a former head of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Materials Section of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), credited with many innovations in the field of nuclear material science. He was honored by the government of India in 2002, with the fourth-highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.

Biography Ganguly was born on 31 December 1946 at Shibpur in the Indian state of West Bengal. and Klaus Kümmerer on X-ray scattering technology. opened its India subsidiary at Hyderabad, he was appointed as the president. and a former president of the Powder Metallurgy Association of India. He has served, as a member, many professional organizations such as the Indian Institute of Metals, Indian Institute of Ceramics (IICERAM), Indian Nuclear Society, Institution of Engineers (India), Materials Research Society of India and the Indian Society for Non Destructive Testing (ISNT).

Legacy Ganguly is credited with the establishment of the plutonium fuel laboratory at the Radiometallurgy Division of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. and he holds four patents. and Advanced Ceramics, both published by Trans Tech Publication, Switzerland. He is known to have mentored many students for their masters and doctoral researches at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and Osmania University and is an accredited guide of MTech and PhD at the University of Mumbai. He has also participated in the IAEA technical cooperation program for transfer of technology to the developing countries.

Awards and recognitions Chaitanyamoy Ganguly, a Distinguished Scientist of the Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, is an elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc), the National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc), Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE) and the Institution of Engineers (India) (FIE). He is also a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Metals, Indian Institute of Ceramics and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He has received the VASVIK Industrial Research Award, Indian Nuclear Society Award, IIM Kamani Gold Medal and IIM Binani Gold Medal. He is also a recipient of the MRSI Medal, D. N. Agarwal Award, Malaviya Award of the Indian Ceramic Society and KCP Award of the Indian Institute of Welding. He has received the National Metallurgists Day Award of the Ministry of Steel and Mines and the Government of India followed it up with the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2002.