Did you know about an Indian chemical scientist named Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray?
💮‘Revolutionary in the garb of a Scientist’💮
– this is what British govt. records mention about chemical scientist Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray.
He was born on the 2nd of August 1861 at Jessore, Bengal. He supported freedom fighters, making arrangements for their stay and food in his factories in Bengal. A staunch patriot, he was against British rule and oppression.
He helped freedom fighters in the manufacturing of expl0sives for use against the British.
‘Science can wait, Swaraj cannot’ - Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray. He is called the father of chemical science in India.
He was the founder of India's first pharmaceutical company, Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals. He had written 107 research papers in all branches of Chemistry, authored ‘A History of Hindu Chemistry’,
‘A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century’, and more books. For his research in inorganic and organic nitrites, he was addressed as ‘Master of Nitrites’.