17 Facts About Biman Bagchi

Biman Bagchi is an Indian scientist currently serving as a SERB-DST National Science Chair Professor and Honorary Professor at the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science.

Biman Bagchi is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences, The World Academy of Sciences and an International honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Biman Bagchi graduated in chemistry from Presidency College, Kolkata in 1974 and obtained a master's degree from Rajabazar Science College, Calcutta University in 1976.

Biman Bagchi earned a PhD at Brown University in 1980, working with Julian Gibbs and did his post-doctoral studies at James Franck Institute of the University of Chicago as a research associate.

Biman Bagchi often developed theories that combined sophisticated theoretical approaches to extend traditional and established theories and methods to explain emerging experimental and simulation results.

Professor Biman Bagchi has published more than 480 articles and received more than 24000 citations.

Biman Bagchi's work has been published in reputed journals such as Nature, PNAS, PRL, JACS, JPC and Chemical Reviews.

Biman Bagchi has authored two well-known monographs published by the Oxford University Press [Molecular Relaxation in Liquids] and Cambridge University Press [Water in Biological and Chemical Processes: From Structure and Dynamics to Function].

Biman Bagchi is associated with a number of science journals as a member of their editorial boards.

Biman Bagchi has authored 22 major review articles that are partly pedagogical and influenced generations of physical and theoretical chemists.

Biman Bagchi developed the first and till to date the most successful theory of barrierless chemical reactions.

Biman Bagchi explained this by developing a microscopic theory which included intermolecular correlations and the contribution of translational contributions of solvent molecules.

Biman Bagchi 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.

Biman Bagchi was selected as J C Bose National Fellow in 2006 and the several award orations he has delivered include BC 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.

Biman Bagchi has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids, by the American Chemical Society.

Biman Bagchi was selected for the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Humboldt Science Research Award in recognition of his work in chemical sciences.

In 2021, Biman Bagchi was a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist.