Prafulla Chandra Ray Facts
Prafulla Chandra Ray Facts
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| Acharya Prafulla Ray was born in Raruli-Katipara in Bangladesh. |
| In 1870 his family moved to Calcutta and Ray entered Hare School. |
| In 1874 he was stricken with severe dysentery which caused him to postpone his studies for several years while he recuperated. |
| During his recuperation, he continued to read and study. |
| When he recovered he entered the Albert School in Calcutta. |
| In 1879 he was admitted to Vidyasagar College but, at that time, the college had no science classes so he attended lectures in the Presidency College. |
| He left Vidyasagar College and enrolled in the BSc program at Edinburgh University to study physics, chemistry and biology. |
| He was also interested in history and politics. |
| In 1887 he received a PhD from Edinburgh University with a thesis titled "Conjugated Sulphates of the Copper-magnesium Group: a Study of Isomorphous Mixtures and Molecular Combinations." |
| After graduation he was awarded the Hope Prize which funded an extra year of postdoctoral work. |
| He returned to Calcutta in August 1888 and joined Presidency College as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. |
| In 1896 he published a paper on mercurous nitrite. |
| In 1924 he founded the Indian School of Chemistry. |
| In 1916 he retired from the College and became Palit Professor of Chemistry at the Calcutta University College of Science. |
| There be brought together a team which worked on compounds of gold, platinum, iridium with mercaptyl radicals and organic sulphides. |
| In 1921 he bequeathed his entire salary to Calcutta University for chemical research and the establishment of a Department of Chemistry. |
| He was a prolific writer and published 107 papers on Chemistry. |
| He was interested in the history of chemistry as well as its practical applications and spent years researching ancient Sanskrit manuscripts. |
| The result was a two volume work titled A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of Sixteenth Century published in 1902. |
| In 1932 he published the first of a two volume autobiography titled Life and Experience of a Bengali Chemist. |
| In 1923 he organized the Bengal Relief Committee which collected and distributed 2.5 million rupees to the Northern Bengalis affected by a devastating flood. |
| In 1922 he established the Nagarjuna Prize to be awarded in chemistry. |
| In 1917 he was knighted for his contributions to science. |
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