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The life and scientific contributions of Professor Kankan Bhattacharyya are highlighted in this article. The qualities that made him a great human being and an inspiring personality to a generation of the scientific community are also presented.
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Pratik Sen is a Professor of chemistry at IIT Kanpur. He is a recipient of the Young Faculty Research Fellowship, MeitY, GoI, INSA Medal for Young Scientist, Chemical Sciences, and CRSI Bronze Medal. Presently, he is the Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair at ITT Kanpur. He is interested in gaining a physical insight into how dynamics in various lengths and timescales control chemistry.
Anunay Samanta is a Senior Professor (re-employed) in the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad. He is a Fellow of all three national science academies and a J.C. Bose National Fellow of the SERB since 2010. His research focuses on ultrafast charge carrier dynamics of the lead halide perovskites.
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Sen, P., Samanta, A. Kankan Bhattacharyya: A Pioneer of Experimental Research in Ultrafast Spectroscopy. Reson 28, 1621–1636 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-023-1702-5
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