Deb Shankar Ray

Deb Shankar Ray
Born (1954-01-02) January 2, 1954
West Bengal, India
Residence Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality Indian
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Known for Studies on non-linear dynamics and spectroscopy
Notable awards

Deb Shankar Ray (born 1954) is an Indian physical chemist and professor at the department of physical chemistry of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata.[1] He is known for his researches on non-linear dynamics and theoretical spectroscopy[2] and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy[3] West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology[4] and the Indian Academy of Sciences[5] 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 1999, for his contributions to chemical sciences.[6]

Biography

Jadavpur University

D. S. Ray, born on the 2 January 1954 in in the Indian state of West Bengal, after securing a PhD from Cornell University for his thesis on Notes on Brownian motion and related phenomena,[7] started his career as a lecturer at Jadavpur University in 1984.[8] He worked at the university for two years when he was appointed as a senior lecturer at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1986 where he spent the rest of his career. During this period, he held various positions such as that of a reader (1991–97), professor (1997–2002), head of the department (2002–05), senior professor (2005–09) and dean of academics (2009–10). After superannuation, he holds the position of an emeritus professor of the institution.[9] He also serves as an honorary faculty at University of Calcutta and Vidyasagar University.[8]

Legacy

Ray is known to have done extensive research on theoretical spectroscopy and nonlinear dynamics.[10][11] His later researches at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science were focused on spin bath processes on which he has written numerous articles.[12] His researches have been published as one book, Quantum theory of activated rate processes: Canonical quantization formalism,[13] as chapters to books authored by others[14] as well as several peer-reviewed scientific articles; Google Scholar, an online repository of science articles, has listed 181 of them.[15] He has mentored several doctoral scholars in their studies[16][17] and is a member of the national organizing committee of the Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (CNSD).[18]

Awards and honors

Ray, a national scholarship holder during 1970–73,[8] received the Young Scientist Award of the Indian National Science Academy in 1984.[19] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1999.[20] He was elected by the Indian Academy of Sciences as their fellow in 1995.[5] and he became an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2014.[3] He is also an elected fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Sciences.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Deb Shankar Ray". Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. 2016.
  2. ↑ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016.
  4. 1 2 "WAST fellows" (PDF). West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology. 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  6. ↑ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 "Faculty profile". IACS. 2016.
  8. ↑ "Emeritus Professor". Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. 2016.
  9. ↑ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999. p. 34. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  10. ↑ Subhasish Dutta Gupta; Nirmalya Ghosh; Ayan Banerjee (15 October 2015). Wave Optics: Basic Concepts and Contemporary Trends. CRC Press. pp. 345–. ISBN 978-1-4822-3774-0.
  11. ↑ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016.
  12. ↑ Dhruba Banerjee, Deb Shankar Ray (February 2011). Quantum theory of activated rate processes: Canonical quantization formalism. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. p. 204. ISBN 978-3843363433.
  13. ↑ R. Inguva (6 December 2012). Recent Developments in Quantum Optics. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 347–. ISBN 978-1-4615-2936-1.
  14. ↑ "Ray on Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 2016.
  15. ↑ "Alumni details". IACS. 2016.
  16. ↑ S. H. Lin; A. A. Villaeys; Y. Fujimura (1993). Advances in Multiphoton Processes and Spectroscopy. World Scientific. pp. 191–. ISBN 978-981-02-1543-9.
  17. ↑ "National Organizing Committee". Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (CNSD). 2016.
  18. ↑ "Young Scientist Award". Indian National Science Academy. 2016.
  19. ↑ "Chemical Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
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