Basudeb DasSarma

Basudeb DasSarma
Born(1923-01-01)1 January 1923
Barisal, India
Died16 November 2007(2007-11-16) (aged 84)
Charleston, West Virginia, U.S.
Spouse(s)Seba Sen, (author of Tales from a Faraway Land, Indian Children's Stories)
Scientific career
Fields
Basudeb DasSarma with P. B. Sarkar, Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, and other members of the University of Calcutta. Photograph taken on the eve of DasSarma's departure for the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA in October 1953.

Basudeb DasSarma (1 January 1923 – 16 November 2007) was a chemist and faculty at the University College of Science and Technology of the University of Calcutta. He was among an early group of Indian scholars and professionals to emigrate to the US.[1] He did groundbreaking research with John C. Bailar Jr. at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, won an American Chemical Society award in 1971 [2] for his contributions to the understanding of coordination and stereo-chemistry of metal complexes, and became a naturalized US citizen in 1972. He was a professor of chemistry at West Virginia State College from 1966 to 1992, President of the West Virginia Academy of Science, 1981–82, and a community leader and spokesman on environmental issues[3] in the Kanawha Valley around Charleston, West Virginia. He died on 16 November 2007.[4]

  1. ^ Indians Abroad, India Abroad (page 6), 14 May 1982
  2. ^ American Chemical Society Award, Chemical and Engineering News (page 50), 4 October 1972
  3. ^ Chemist Gets Silver Pen Award, Charleston Daily Mail (page 4A), 9 May 1985
  4. ^ Ainsworth, Susan J. "Obituaries". Chemical & Engineering News. Retrieved 15 October 2018.