Premier Indian Institute Science (IISc) Professor Biman Bagchi has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in theoretical and experimental chemistry of liquids, sponsored by ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, an official said.
"This is a prestigious award in the area of liquids and glasses. The American Chemic Society (ACS) national awards program is designed to encourage the advancement of chemistry in all its branches and to support research in chemical science and industry," said the city-based institute in a statement here.
The 66-year-old Bagchi is a biophysical chemist, theoretical chemist, and an Amrut Mody Professor at the solid-state and structural chemistry lab in the over century-old renowned institute.
A chemistry graduate from Kolkata's Presidency College in 1974, Bagchi obtained a master's degree in chemistry from Calcutta University in 1976 and went to the US where he did PhD from Brown University, an Ivy League institution at Providence in Rhode Island in 1980. He also did post-doctoral studies at James Franck Institute of the University of Chicago.
Bagchi returned to India in 1984 and joined the IISc as a lecturer where he has established the Bagchi research group.
IISc Director G. Rangarajan congratulated Bagchi for being selected to the prestigious award in the field of chemistry.
Announcing the selection in Washington DC, ACS senior manager Felicia Foxworth Dixon said in an e-mail on Monday night that the award would be presented to Bagchi at the society's spring 2021 national meeting and expo in San Antonio in Texas on March 23, 2021.
Names of the 2021 ACS national award recipients will be published in the August issue of "Chemical & Engineering News", and announced in C&En News besides in ACS Twitter handle.
Noted chemistry professors Bob Zwanzig, Casey Hynes, and Hans Andersen were the recipients of the award in the past.
"The ACS awards are designed to encourage the advancement of chemistry in all its branches, to support research in chemical science and industry and to promote the careers of chemists, a said Dixon on the occasion..
Protest demonstrations broke out across different areas of Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan after Friday prayers, with thousands…
Jamil Maqsood, the President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United Kashmir People's National…
The 6th meeting of the ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement (AITIGA) Joint Committee concluded in…
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), on behalf of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task…
A delegation from the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile (TPiE), led by Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel and accompanied…
On the sidelines of the 2nd India-CARICOM Summit, leaders of the member countries witnessed a…