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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. He is known for his research on non-linear dynamics and theoretical spectroscopy and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology, 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 1999, for his contributions to chemical sciences.

Biography

D. S. Ray was born on 2 January 1954 in the Indian state of West Bengal. After securing a PhD from the Rajabazar Science College, Calcutta University for his thesis on Time resolved spectroscopy, he started his career as a lecturer at Jadavpur University in 1984. 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). He also serves as an honorary faculty member at the University of Calcutta and Vidyasagar University.

Legacy

Ray is known to have done extensive research on theoretical spectroscopy and nonlinear dynamics. He is also known to be an inspiring teacher. His later research at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science was focused on spin bath processes on which he has written numerous articles. His research has been published in one book, Quantum Brownian Motion in C-Numbers: Theory And Applications, also as chapters in books authored by other authors as well as several peer-reviewed scientific articles. Google Scholar, an online repository of science articles, has listed 181 of these. He has mentored several doctoral scholars in their studies and is a member of the national organizing committee of the Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (CNSD).

Awards and honors

Ray, a national scholarship holder during 1970–73, received the Young Scientist Award of the Indian National Science Academy in 1984. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1999. He was elected by the Indian Academy of Sciences as their fellow in 1995. and he became an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2014. He is also an elected fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Sciences. He was the Acting Director of IACS, Kolkata from 2013 to 2015.

See also

• Spectroscopy
• Nonlinear system

References

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3. ^ "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016. Archived from the original on 1 March 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
4. ^ "WAST fellows" (PDF). West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology. 2016.
5. ^ "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
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8. ^ "Faculty profile". IACS. 2016. Archived from the original on 27 November 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
9. "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999. p. 34. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 October 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. Debashis Barik, Dhruba Banerjee, Deb Shankar Ray (2005). Quantum Brownian Motion in C-Numbers: Theory And Applications. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (published 30 December 2009). p. 125. ISBN 978-1594546112.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
12. R. Inguva (6 December 2012). Recent Developments in Quantum Optics. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 347–. ISBN 978-1-4615-2936-1.
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14. "Alumni details". IACS. 2016.
15. 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.
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18. "Chemical Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

• Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Science
• 1954 births
• Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
• Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
• Academic staff of Jadavpur University
• Academic staff of the University of Calcutta
• Vidyasagar University
• Cornell University alumni
• Living people
• Scientists from Kolkata
• Bengali scientists