Palit Professor of Physics

The Palit Chair of Physics is a physics professorship in the University of Calcutta, India."Prestigious Chairs" University of Calcutta. Retrieved 2015-08-22. The post is named after Sir Taraknath Palit who donated Rs. 1.5 million to the university. The Nobel laureate physicist C. V. Raman was the first to be appointed to the post of Palit Professor of Physics in 1917. At present the holder of the chair is Amitava Raychaudhuri."Indian Fellow" Indian National Science Academy. Retrieved 2015-08-22.

List of Taraknath Palit Professors of Physics

NameTerm C. V. Raman1917-1932 Debendra Mohan Bose1932-1938 Meghnad Saha1938-1953 Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri1953-1959 Chanchal Kumar Majumdar1975-1982Amitava Raychaudhuri

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