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Tushar Kanti Chakraborty

Tushar Kanti Chakraborty is a chemistry topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Tushar Kanti Chakraborty rather than just read about it. In short: Tushar Kanti Chakraborty (born 1957) is an Indian organic chemist and former professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He has served as a director of the Central Drug Research Institute and as a chief scientist at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology.

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Reference excerpt

Tushar Kanti Chakraborty (born 1957) is an Indian organic chemist and former professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He has served as a director of the Central Drug Research Institute and as a chief scientist at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology. He is known for the discovery of novel macrocyclic systems. He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy National Academy of Sciences, India 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 2002, for his contributions to chemical sciences.

Biography

T. K. Chakraborty was born on 10 April 1957 in the Indian state of West Bengal. He completed his graduate studies (BSc hons) in 1977 at Presidency College, (then under Calcutta University) and joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur where he did his master's course in 1979. He continued at IIT Kanpur for his doctoral studies under the guidance of Srinivasan Chandrasekaran, a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, and secured a PhD in 1984 before moving to University of Pennsylvania where he did his post-doctoral studies at the laboratory of K. C. Nicolaou. He returned to India in 1987 and started his career as a C-grade scientist at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology. He served at IICT for more than two decades except for two breaks; the first for 6 months in 1989 as an exchange visitor at the Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow and the second, for 2 years from 1992 to 1994 at Scripps Research Institute as a visiting scientist. At IICT, he rose from a C-grade scientist to a G-grade chief scientist by 2008 when he was appointed as the director of the Central Drug Research Institute to superannuate from service in 2013. Post-retirement, he serves as a professor at the Indian Institute of Science since 2014 where he served till April 2024.

Legacy Chakraborty's research covered the design and synthesis of unnatural amino acids, cyclic peptides and biologically active natural products. He is credited with designing new amide-linked molecular entities based on sugar, Amino Acids and anticancer compounds such as amphidinolides, epothilones, crocacins, and clavosolide and the synthesis of glycopeptide antibiotics (vancomycin and teicoplanin) and immunosuppressants (FK506, rapamycin, stevastelins and antascomicin). He has published his research in several peer-reviewed articles; ResearchGate, an online repository of science articles, has listed 243 of them. He has also mentored several doctoral scholars in their studies.

Awards and honors Chakraborty received two awards in 1991, the Young Scientist Award of the Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). CSIR honored him again 2002 with the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards. In between, he received Dr. Basudev Banerjee Memorial Award of the Indian Chemical Society in 1999. The year 2002 brought him one more award, the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India. He received the Andhra Pradesh Scientist Award and the Innocentive Champion Medal in 2005. The NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award reached him in 2006 and three years later, he received the Jawaharlal Nehru National Award in Science from the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology. Holder of the J. C. Bose National Fellowship in 2008, he was elected by the National Academy of Sciences, India as their fellow in 2000 and he became an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2003 and the Indian National Science Academy in 2007.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Tushar Kanti Chakraborty

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Tushar Kanti Chakraborty claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In chemistry, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Tushar Kanti Chakraborty before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Tushar Kanti Chakraborty ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Tushar Kanti Chakraborty

In research: Tushar Kanti Chakraborty appears in chemistry research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Tushar Kanti Chakraborty in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Tushar Kanti Chakraborty is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1957 births, Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science, Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Tushar Kanti Chakraborty outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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