Biman Bagchi

Biman Bagchi
Born (1954-01-01) January 1, 1954
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Residence Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Nationality Indian
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Known for Studies on statistical mechanics
Notable awards
  • 1986 INSA Medal for Young Scientists
  • 1990 INSA A. K. Bose Memorial Medal
  • 1991 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
  • 1997 G. D. Birla Award
  • 2002 Indian Institute of Science Alumni Excellence Award
  • 2003 Goyal Prize in Chemistry

Biman Bagchi (born 1954) is an Indian biophysical chemist, theoretical chemist and an Amrut Mody Professor at the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science.[1] He is known for his studies on statistical mechanics, particularly in salvation dynamics.[2] and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy,[3] the Indian Academy of Sciences[4] and The World Academy of Sciences.[5] Besides several articles, he has authored two books, Molecular Relaxation in Liquids[6] and Water in Biological and Chemical Processes: From Structure and Dynamics to Function[7] 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 1991, for his contributions to chemical sciences.[8]

Biography

Indian Institute of Science

Biman Bagchi was born on the New Year's Day of 1954 to Binay K. Bagchi, a school principal and his homemaker/part-time teacher wife, Abha, in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.[9] He graduated in chemistry from Presidency College, Kolkata (present-day Presidency University) in 1974 and obtained a master's degree from Calcutta University in 1976. Moving to the US, he did his doctoral studies at Brown University, an Ivy League institution from where he secured a PhD in 1980 and did his post-doctoral studies at James Franck Institute of the University of Chicago as a research associate. Here, he had the opportunity to work with renowned chemists such as David W. Oxtoby, Graham Fleming and Stuart Rice till 1983 when he shifted to the laboratory of Robert Zwanzig of the University of Maryland for a one-year stint.[3] He returned to India in 1984 to join the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) at their Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit as a lecturer where he has established Biman Bagchi Group[10] and serves as an Amrut Mody Professor.[1]

Legacy

Focusing his researches of theoretical physical chemistry primarily on molecular relaxation in liquids, he developed a number of statistical mechanics, a few of which have already been proven experimentally.[11] His research work is detailed in two books, Molecular Relaxation in Liquids[6] and Water in Biological and Chemical Processes: From Structure and Dynamics to Function,[7] several chapters in books edited by others,[12][13][14][15] and several peer-reviewed articles;[16][note 1] Google Scholar and ResearchGate, two online knowledge repositories, have listed 445[17] and 468 of them respectively in their websites.[18] He has guided many doctoral and other scholars in their studies[19][20] and have conducted lectures at national and international levels.[note 2] His writings have drawn several citations[note 3] and he is also associated with a number of science journals as a member of their editorial boards.[3]

Awards and honors

The Indian National Science Academy awarded Bagchi the INSA Medal for Young Scientists in 1986;[21] the Academy would honor him again in 1990 with A. K. Bose Memorial Medal and with an elected fellowship in 1995.[22] He received the Homi Bhabha fellowship in 1989 before the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1991.[23] The same year, the Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as their fellow[4] and he became an elected fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2004.[5] In between, he received the G. D. Birla Award in 1997, the Alumni Excellence Award in Research of the Indian Institute of Science in 2002 and Goyal Prize in Chemistry in 2003. He was selected as J. C. Bose National Fellow in 2006[24] and the several award orations he has delivered include B. C. Laha Memorial Lecture of 2001, conducted by Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science and Mizushima-Raman Lecture of 2006, jointly organized by the Department of Science and Technology and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.[3] The Journal of Physical Chemistry published a festschrift on Bagchi by way of their August 2015 issue.[25][26]

Citations

Lectures

Selected bibliography

Books

Chapters

Articles

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Please see Selected bibliography section
  2. ↑ Please see Lectures section
  3. ↑ Please see Citations section

References

  1. 1 2 "Amrut Mody Professor". Indian Institute of Science. 2016.
  2. ↑ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  5. 1 2 "TWAS fellow". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
  6. 1 2 Biman Bagchi (17 April 2012). Molecular Relaxation in Liquids. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-986332-7.
  7. 1 2 Biman Bagchi (14 November 2013). Water in Biological and Chemical Processes: From Structure and Dynamics to Function. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03729-8.
  8. ↑ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  9. ↑ Bagchi, Biman. "Autobiography of Biman Bagchi". J. Phys. Chem. B. 2015. 119 (34): 10813–10816. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b06114.
  10. ↑ "Bagchi Group official website". Laboratory profile. Bagchi Group. 2016.
  11. ↑ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999. p. 34. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  12. ↑ Peter G. Wolynes; Vassiliy Lubchenko (10 April 2012). Structural Glasses and Supercooled Liquids: Theory, Experiment, and Applications. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 279–. ISBN 978-0-470-45223-3.
  13. ↑ Irene Burghardt; V. May; David A. Micha, E. R. Bittner (22 September 2009). Energy Transfer Dynamics in Biomaterial Systems. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 165–. ISBN 978-3-642-02306-4.
  14. ↑ Swapan Kumar Ghosh; Pratim Kumar Chattaraj (19 April 2016). Concepts and Methods in Modern Theoretical Chemistry: Statistical Mechanics. CRC Press. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-4665-0621-3.
  15. ↑ Stuart A. Rice (28 January 2009). Advances in Chemical Physics. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 266–. ISBN 978-0-470-43190-0.
  16. ↑ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016.
  17. ↑ "On Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 2016.
  18. ↑ "On ResearchGate". ResearchGate. 2016.
  19. ↑ Nilashis Nandi (27 July 2011). Chirality in Biological Nanospaces: Reactions in Active Sites. CRC Press. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-1-4398-4003-0.
  20. ↑ K.B. Eisenthal (6 December 2012). Applications of Picosecond Spectroscopy to Chemistry. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 76–. ISBN 978-94-009-6427-3.
  21. ↑ "INSA Medal for Young Scientists". Indian National Science Academy. 2016.
  22. ↑ "A. K. Bose Memorial Medal". Indian National Science Academy. 2016.
  23. ↑ "Chemical Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  24. ↑ "J. C. Bose National Fellow" (PDF). Science and Engineering Research Biard. 2016.
  25. ↑ Chandra, Amalendu; Biswas, Ranjit; Fleming, Graham R., eds. (August 2015). "Biman Bagchi Festschrift". The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 119 (34): 10809–11442. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b06606.
  26. ↑ Amalendu Chandra, Ranjit Biswas, Graham R. Fleming (editors) (August 2015). "A Tribute to Biman Bagchi". The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 119 (34): 10809–11442. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b06606.

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