Kshitish Ranjan Chakravorty
Indian engineer, fertilizer scientist (born 1916)
- Development of fertilizer plants in India
- 1954 Padma Shri
- 1968 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
- Fertilizer science
Kshitish Ranjan Chakravorty (born 1 February 1916) was an Indian engineer, fertilizer scientist and the head of the Planning and Development Division of the Fertilizer Corporation of India (FCI).[1][2] He was credited with the establishment of Planning and Development Division of FCI and with the development indigenous fertilizer plants in India.[3] Born on 1 February 1916, Chakravorty was the author of two books, Science Based on Symmetry, Volume 1[4] and Energy Field of the Universe and Atom, Part 1[5] and he held the patent for a process on an ionexchange material from the acid sludge.[6] He sat in the Committee on Tachnical Consultancy Services of the Government of India[7] and was an Indian member of the Indo-US Workshop on the Management of Organization of Industrial Research held in 1970.[8] He received the fourth highest Indian civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 1954,[9] making him one of the earliest recipients of the award.[10] 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 for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 1968.[11]
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References
- ^ Ward Morehouse (1971). Science in India: Institution-building and the Organizational System for Research & Development. Popular Prakashan. pp. 122–. ISBN 978-81-7154-501-8.
- ^ Ignacy Sachs (22 October 2013). Studies in Political Economy of Development. Elsevier. pp. 213–. ISBN 978-1-4831-5816-7.
- ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
- ^ K. R. Chakravorty (1977). Science Based on Symmetry. Firma KLM.
- ^ K. R. Chakravorty (1964). Energy Field of the Universe and Atom. s.n. Roye, technical publications officer, P & D Division, Fertilizer Corporation of India.
- ^ Ranjan Chakravorty Kshitish (7 May 1963). "Process for preparation of an ionexchange material from the acid sludge resulting from sulphuric acid washing of crude light oils". Patent No. US3088924 A. United States Patent.
- ^ Virendra Kumar (1 December 1988). Committees and Commissions in India, 1947-73. Concept Publishing Company. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-81-7022-209-5.
- ^ Harrison Brown; Theresa Tellez (1973). National Academy of Sciences: International Development Programs of the Office of the Foreign Secretary : Summary and Analysis of Activities, 1961-1971. National Academies. pp. 4–. NAP:14684.
- ^ "Padma Shri" (PDF). Government of India. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015.
- ^ "Notifications" (PDF). Government of India. 2016.
- ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Engineering Science
- Homi Nusserwanji Sethna (1960)
- Man Mohan Suri (1962)
- Brahm Prakash (1963)
- Bal Raj Nijhawan (1964)
- Ayyagari Sambasiva Rao (1965)
- Jai Krishna (1966)
- Tanjore Ramachandra Anantharaman (1967)
- Kshitish Ranjan Chakravorty (1968)
- Amitabha Bhattacharyya (1971)
- Govind Swarup (1972)
- Rajindar Pal Wadhwa (1972)
- Man Mohan Sharma (1973)
- Roddam Narasimha (1974)
- Mangalore Anantha Pai (1974)
- Udipi Ramachandra Rao (1975)
- Rajinder Kumar (1976)
- Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman (1976)
- Digvijai Singh (1978)
- Sekharipuram Narayaniyer Seshadri (1978)
- Palle Rama Rao (1979)
- V. S. R. Arunachalam (1980)
- S. C. Dutta Roy (1981)
- R. A. Mashelkar (1982)
- K. Kasturirangan (1983)
- S. S. Sukhatme (1983)
- D. D. Bhawalkar (1984)
- Paul Ratnasamy (1984)
- P. R. Rao (1985)
- Manohar Lal Munjal (1986)
- Shrikant Lele (1987)
- B. D. Kulkarni (1988)
- Surendra Prasad (1988)
- Srikumar Banerjee (1989)
- G. V. Rao (1989)
- S. K. Pal (1990)
- Gangan Pratap (1990)
- J. B. Joshi (1991)
- Vivek Borkar (1992)
- Dipankar Banerjee (1993)
- S. K. Bhatia (1993)
- G. Sundarrajan (1994)
- Kamanio Chattopadhyay (1995)
- Devang Vipin Khakhar (1997)
- Ashok Jhunjhunwala (1998)
- Anurag Sharma (1998)
- Ashutosh Sharma (2002)
- Atul Chokshi (2003)
- Soumitro Banerjee (2003)
- Subhasis Chaudhuri (2004)
- Vivek Ranade (2004)
- V. Ramgopal Rao (2005)
- Kalyanmoy Deb (2005)
- Ashish Kishore Lele (2006)
- Sanjay Mittal (2006)
- Rama Govindarajan (2007)
- Budharaju Srinivasa Murty (2007)
- Ranjan Kumar Mallik (2008)
- Giridhar Madras (2009)
- Jayant Haritsa (2009)
- G. K. Ananthasuresh (2010)
- Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (2010)
- Sirshendu De (2011)
- Upadrasta Ramamurty (2011)
- Ravishankar Narayanan (2012)
- Y. Shanthi Pavan (2012)
- Bikramjit Basu (2013)
- Suman Chakraborty (2013)
- Soumen Chakrabarti (2014)
- S Venkata Mohan (2014)
- Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi (2015)
- Avinash Kumar Agarwal (2016)
- Venkata Narayana Padmanabhan (2016)
- Aloke Paul (2017)
- Neelesh B. Mehta (2017)
- Amit Agrawal (2018)
- Ashwin Gumaste (2018)
- Manik Varma (2019)
- Kinshuk Dasgupta (2020)
- Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni (2020)
- Debdeep Mukhopadhyay (2021)
- Dipti Ranjan Sahoo (2022)
- Rajnish Kumar (2022)
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