Sumit Bhaduri

Sumit Bhaduri (born 1948) is an Indian organometallic chemist and was a senior scientific advisor to Reliance Industries. He is known for his studies on metal-carbonyl clusters and to the polymer-supported catalysis and is credited with the development of technology for the manufacture of Ziegler-Natta polypropylene catalyst which is in use with Reliance Industries.

He has authored a book, Homogeneous Catalysis: Mechanisms and Industrial Applications 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 1992, for his contributions to chemical sciences.

Biography Sumit Bhaduri, born on 22 October 1948, in the Indian state of West Bengal, graduated in chemistry in 1968 from Presidency College, Kolkata when the college was under the University of Calcutta and moved to the UK to do a Tripos at the University of Cambridge in 1971. His researches have been documented in a book, Homogeneous Catalysis: Mechanisms and Industrial Applications, He also writes general articles related to science and science education. He holds several patents for the processes he has developed and one of them, on the manufacturing of Ziegler-Natta polypropylene catalyst is in use with his former employers, Reliance Industries.

Bhaduri, a SERC lecturer, has served as a visiting professor at Northwestern University and University of Bordeaux and is adjunct faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. The Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as their fellow in 1989 He became a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 1993.