Sourav Pal was born on 12 May 1955 and is an Indian theoretical chemist, former professor of chemistry at IIT Bombay, and former director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata.
13 Facts About Sourav Pal
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Sourav Pal was a director of the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune and an adjunct professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.
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Sourav Pal has made contributions in the field of coupled cluster-based methods of quantum chemistry.
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Sourav Pal developed expectation value and the response properties to multi-reference coupled cluster theory, as well as extended coupled-cluster functions.
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Sourav Pal has developed a non-iterative approximation to coupled-perturbed Kohn-Sham density functional theoretic equations to calculate non-linear properties.
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Sourav Pal has made contributions in the area of reactivity descriptors; he established Hirshfeld population in the calculation of Fukui functions and developed the local hard-soft-acid-base principle for molecular recognition.
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Sourav Pal worked at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science.
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Sourav Pal was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florida with Rodney J Bartlett in 1986.
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Sourav Pal is the recipient of the following awards and honors.
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Sourav Pal has studied various properties of hardness and softness in relation to molecular properties, like polarizability.
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Sourav Pal's model used local polarization, which can be described by normalized-atom-condensed Fukui functions, which is the normal condensed Fukui function multiplied by the number of atoms.
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Sourav Pal has implemented this in deMon2k software and used it for the calculation of electric properties.
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Sourav Pal's study led to novel evidence of anti-aromaticity in metal clusters.