Mihir Chowdhury FNA, FASc was an Indian physical chemist and Professor and Head of Department of Chemistry at Presidency College, Kolkata and at the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science.
12 Facts About Mihir Chowdhury
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Mihir Chowdhury is known for his studies on the electronic structure of molecules using optical, magneto-optical and quantum-mechanical methods.
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Mihir Chowdhury was an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences.
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Mihir Chowdhury served the college for over a decade as a professor of chemistry.
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Mihir Chowdhury was the head of the department of chemistry at Presidency College when he left the institution to return to Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science as a professor in 1966 and when he superannuated in 1998, he had served IACS as the head of the department of physical chemistry since 1976.
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Mihir Chowdhury continued his association with the post graduate teaching programs of Calcutta University and Presidency College on honorary basis.
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Mihir Chowdhury's elder brother Dr Subir Chowdhury was a director at IIM, Kolkata.
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Mihir Chowdhury developed facilities to carry out his spectroscopic and fast kinetic experiments and studied various fields of spectroscopy such as laser, time-resolved and non-linear optics, and elucidated role of spin and magnetic field in the radical pair recombination process, circular dichroism of crystal field split components in cooled single crystals, and laser-induced fluorescence of jet-cooled large organic molecules and their hydrated clusters.
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Mihir Chowdhury documented his researches by way of over 155 articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
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Mihir Chowdhury was associated with a number of science journals as a member of their editorial boards and guided 30 doctoral scholars in their studies.
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Mihir Chowdhury received the Silver Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award and the life membership of the Indian Society for Radiation and Photochemical Sciences in 2000.
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Mihir Chowdhury was a recipient of honoris causa degrees of Doctor of Science of the Vidyasagar University and Presidency University.