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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1947|7|21}}
| birth_place = [[Assam]], India
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| residence = [[Guwahati]], [[Assam]], India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Inorganic chemistry]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[North Eastern Hill University]] | [[Tezpur University]] | [[IIT Guwahati]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Kalyani University]] | [[IIT Kharagpur]] | [[Ruhr University Bochum]] }}
| doctoral_advisor =
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| known_for = Studies on [[dioxygen]] complexes and fluorine compounds
| awards = {{ublist | 1989 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 1998 P. Natrajan Endowment Award | 2002 Chemito Award | 2005 [[Indian Chemical Society|ICS]] S. S. Sandhu Award }}
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'''Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri''' (born 1947) is an Indian inorganic chemist and a former vice chancellor of [[Tezpur University]].<ref name="Vice-Chancellor, Tezpur University">{{Cite web |url=http://www.tezu.ernet.in/vision/det_vc_mkc.htm |title=Vice-Chancellor, Tezpur University |date=2016 |publisher=Tezpur University |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308062414/http://www.tezu.ernet.in/vision/det_vc_mkc.htm |archive-date=8 March 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> He is known for his studies on the synthesis of dioxygen complexes and fluorine compounds of metals and non metals<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=422 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and is an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]],<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=N91-1074 |title=Indian fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Chaudhuri,_Prof._Mihir_Kanti |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1989, for his contributions to chemical sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref>

== Biography ==
[[File:MainView.png|thumb|235px|Tezpur University]]
M. K. Chaudhuri, born on 21 July 1947 in the northeast Indian state of [[Assam]], obtained a master's degree from [[Kalyani University]] before securing his PhD from the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur]] in 1973.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> Moving to Germany, he completed Dr rer. net. from [[Ruhr University Bochum]] in 1975 and returned to India to join the [[North Eastern Hill University]] as a professor at the department of chemistry. Later, he moved to the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati]] as the head of the chemistry department where he served as the dean of student affairs as well as the dean of research and development.<ref name="An Interview with the Vice-Chancellor of Tezpur University, Prof. Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri">{{Cite web |url=http://gonitsora.com/interview-vice-chancellor-tezpur-university-prof-mihir-kanti-chaudhuri/ |title=An Interview with the Vice-Chancellor of Tezpur University, Prof. Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri |date=11 April 2016 |publisher=Gonit Sora}}</ref> In May 2007, he was appointed as the vice chancellor of Tezpur University. On completion of his five-year term, he was reappointed as the vice chancellor in 2012<ref name="Ajit Singh, C.J.">{{Cite web |url=http://ghconline.gov.in/Judgment/WPC63522012.pdf |title=Ajit Singh, C.J. |date=2016 |publisher=Government of India}}</ref> and held the position until May, 2017.<ref name="Tezpur University VC`s term extended by 5 years">{{Cite web |url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/assam/tezpur-university-vcs-term-extended-by-5-years_776291.html |title=Tezpur University VC's term extended by 5 years |date=19 May 2012 |publisher=Zee News}}</ref>

Chaudhuri's researches have been focused on the synthesis of [[Dioxygen|dioxygen complexes]] and fluorine compounds of metals and non-metals.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=5 October 2016 | pages=34 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and Indian Academy of Sciences have listed 88 of them in their online repository.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Chaudhuri=3AMihir_Kanti=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> Under his leadership, Tezpur University have developed into a major centre of learning in India and received the ''Visitor's Award for the Best University'' from the President of India in 2016.<ref name="TU V-C receives Visitor’s Best University award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=mar1816/state056 |title=TU V-C receives Visitor's Best University award |date=17 March 2016 |publisher=Assam Tribune}}</ref> He has been associated with the Department of Science and Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and the [[University Grants Commission of India]] as well as the state and union government bodies as an expert committee member and has organized many refresher courses and seminars at the university and outside.<ref name="Course director">{{Cite web |url=http://web-japps.ias.ac.in:8080/SEP/Reports/report_rc/82_2010_3%20(2).pdf |title=Course director |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref><ref name="Brain drain a major problem: Prof Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri">{{Cite web |url=http://htsyndication.com/htsportal/article/Brain-drain-a-major-problem%3A-Prof-Mihir-Kanti-Chaudhuri/13290920 |title=Brain drain a major problem: Prof Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri |date=23 May 2016 |publisher=HT Syndication}}</ref> He was also a member of the Indo-US Higher Education Dialogue of 2014<ref name="Indo-US Higher Education Dialogue">{{Cite web |url=http://www.going-global-edu.in/all-pdfs/listofmembers.pdf |title=Indo-US Higher Education Dialogue |date=2016 |publisher=Global Education |access-date=23 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123201455/http://www.going-global-edu.in/all-pdfs/listofmembers.pdf |archive-date=23 November 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the Inspire program on Mathematics of the Department of Science and Technology.<ref name="Inspire program on Mathematics">{{Cite web |url=http://www.inspire-dst.gov.in/List_of_Chairpersons_Members.pdf |title=Inspire program on Mathematics |date=2016 |publisher=Inspire}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
The Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as their fellow in 1988<ref name="Fellow profile" /> and the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1989.<ref name="Chemical Sciences">{{cite web|url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm |title=Chemical Sciences |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |date=2016 |access-date=7 November 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912012851/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm |archive-date=12 September 2012 }}</ref> He became an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 1991 and received P. Natrajan Endowment Award in 1998. He is also a recipient of the Chemito Award (2002) and S. S. Sandhu Award of [[Indian Chemical Society]] (2005).<ref name="Indian fellow" /> In 2017 he received honorary [[D.Sc]] degree from [[Kalyani University]] and [[University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya]].<ref>https://www.ndtv.com/education/kalyani-university-conferss-honorary-d-litt-to-cricketer-jhulan-goswami-ustad-rashid-khan-poet-joy-g-1747310</ref><ref>http://www.theshillongtimes.com/2017/06/11/ustm-confers-honorary-d-litt-degree-on-lapang/</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{Cite journal |author1=Chaudhuri, Mihir K. |author2=Dehury, Sanjay K. |author3=Dhar, Siddhartha S. |author4=Sinha, Upasana B. |title=The economic synthesis of pyridinium fluorochromate(VI), C5H5NH[CrO3F] (PFC), and solvent-free oxidation of organic substrates with PFC |journal=Synthetic Communications |year=2004 |publication-date=2004 |volume=34 |issue=22 |pages=4077–4087 |doi=10.1081/SCC-200036584|s2cid=98552998 }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Kantam, M. Lakshmi |author2=Neeraja, V. |author3=Kavita, B. |author4=Neelima, B. |author5=Chaudhuri, Mihir K. |author6=Hussain, Sahid |title=Cu(acac)2 immobilized in ionic liquids: a recoverable and reusable catalytic system for aza-michael reactions |journal=Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis |year=2005 |publication-date=2005 |volume=347 |issue=6 |pages=763–766 |doi=10.1002/adsc.200404361}}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Chaudhuri, M. K. |author2=Dehury, S. K. |author3=Hussain, S. |author4=Duarah, A. |author5=Gogoi, N. |title=The selective solid-phase oxidation of alcohols and other organic substrates by 3,5-dimethylpyrazolium fluorochromate |journal=Organic Preparations and Procedures International |year=2006 |publication-date=2006 |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=331–336 |doi=10.1080/00304940609355994|s2cid=96752977 }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Chaudhuri, Mihir K. |author2=Hussain, Sahid |author3=Bharadwaj, Saitanya K. |author4=Kalita, Harjyoti |title=Borax as an efficient metal-free catalyst for hetero-michael reactions in an aqueous medium |journal=European Journal of Organic Chemistry |year=2007 |publication-date=2007 |volume=2007 |issue=2 |pages=374–378 |doi=10.1002/ejoc.200600691}}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Bharadwaj, Saitanya K. |author2=Hussain, Sahid |author3=Kar, Manoranjan |author4=Chaudhuri, Mihir K. |title=Acid phosphate-impregnated titania-catalyzed nitration of aromatic compounds with nitric acid |journal=Applied Catalysis A: General |year=2008 |publication-date=2008 |volume=343 |issue=1–2 |pages=62–67 |doi=10.1016/j.apcata.2008.03.024}}

== See also ==
* [[Dioxygen]]
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.iisc.ac.in/research/accolades/indian-academy-of-sciences/ |title=Indian Academy of Sciences Fellows from IISc |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Science}}

== Further reading ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://gonitsora.com/interview-vice-chancellor-tezpur-university-prof-mihir-kanti-chaudhuri/ |title=An Interview with the Vice-Chancellor of Tezpur University, Prof. Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri |date=11 April 2016 |publisher=Gonit Sora}}

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