Known as “Father of Indian Chemistry”, Prafulla Chandra Ray was a well-known Indian scientist and teacher and one of the first “modern” Indian chemical researchers. He discovered the stable compound mercurous nitrite in 1896 and established Bengal Chemical and Pharmaceutical Works Ltd, India’s first pharmaceutical company in 1901.Also a very passionate and devoted social worker, he did not support the caste system. Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray was also an icon of selfless service to the nation, humanity and science. His scientific, educationist and social ideologies give us an understanding of the formulation of social and administrative policies for the upliftment of the people and the restoration of India after independence. Like Tagore, Acharya Ray carved science, literature, art, politics, mass movement, educational process and above all social reforms, which meant humanism, his first and ultimate object.
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