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This article is an extended version of Hevesy Medal Award Lecture—2015, delivered at the Tenth International Conference on Methods and Applications of Radioanalytical Chemistry (MARC X) held at Hawai’i during 12–17 April 2015. The award was given on our works on heavy ion activation, tracer packet technique, converter targets and green chemistry. This article briefly addresses on all the four topics described above.

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Acknowledgments

Since this write up is an extended version of Hevesy Medal Award lecture-2015, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all who helped me in my long journey by extending their co-operation, and sincere affection. The list is too long. However, I must express my gratitude to some people without them I could not be here. At the outset I would like to express my sincere thanks to my Ph. D supervisor Professor N. R. Das, who is an excellent and outstanding radiochemist. Professor Das took me to the wonder world of radioactivity and radiochemistry. A very special thanks to Dr. Moumita Maiti, who is responsible for studying physical parameters in heavy ion activation and bringing the subject at par excellence. I am thankful to my graduate students and post doctoral fellows who worked hard and extended their sincere efforts, chronologically, Dr. Shobhandeb Banerjee, Dr. Banani Mukhopadhyay, Dr. (late) Dalia Nayak, Dr. Kakoli Banerjee, Dr. Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Dr. Kamalika Roy (Sen), Dr. Samir Maji, Dr. Kalpita Ghosh, Dr. Anupam Banerjee, Dr. Arpita Datta, Dr. Binita Dutta and Mr. Kaustab Ghosh. I look forward to my present graduate students, Ms. Kangkana Sarkar and Ms. Nabanita Naskar with a hope that they will follow the excellence of their predecessors. I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to my nominators Professor M. L. Thakur, USA; Professor Jan Kuchera, Czech republic and Professor Elisabete De Nadai Ferndance, Brazil. Thanks to Hevesy Medal Award Selection Panel and Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry for keeping faith on me. I am thankful to my own institute Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) and the authority for extending all necessary infrastructures. I am grateful to the Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India, for supporting me intensively specially for granting consecutively two ‘5 year plan projects’, “Trace Analysis: Detection, Dynamics and Speciation (TADDS)” (2007–2012) and “Trace ULtratrace analysis and Isotope Production (TULIP) (2012–2017).

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Lahiri, S. Across the energy scale: from eV to GeV. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 307, 1571–1586 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4298-8

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