Animesh Chakravorty
Chemistry
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Animesh Chakravorty earned his BSc and MSc degrees from Calcutta University. He then worked with the distinguished chemical physicist Sadhan Basu as his doctoral guide and their work on polarized ligand field spectra performed with a home-built micro spectrophotometer yielded important new results such as tris-chelate trigonal splitting. After PhD (1961) he spent three years studying binding equilibria with FA Cotton at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and paramagnetic contact shifts with RH Holm at Harvard University, USA. From PhD days he was a constant pursuant of parallel independent work and two of his notable contributions pertain to charge transfer spectra of planar halo-complexes and shape-control of stereo-labile species using suitable host lattices. He was award DSc (hc) by Burdwan University, West Bengal.
Research Interest
Inorganic & Structural Chemistry
