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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Naba Kishore Ray
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| birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1940|12|5}}
| birth_place = [[Odisha]], India
| death_date = {{death date and age |df=yes|2013|5|8 |1940|12|5}}
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| fields = {{ublist | [[Theoretical chemistry]] | [[Computational chemistry]] }}
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| known_for = Studies on structure of molecules
| awards = {{ublist | 1983 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] }}
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'''Naba Kishore Ray''' (1940- 2013)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/deceased.htm |title=Deceased Honorary Fellows, Foreign Fellows and Fellows |access-date=5 April 2018 |archive-date=28 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528102550/http://www.nasi.org.in/deceased.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> was an Indian theoretical and computational chemist, known for his studies on structure of molecules.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=18 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> Born on 5 December 1940 in the Indian state of [[Odisha]],<ref name="Odiya Celebrities">{{Cite web |url=http://www.odiya.org/personality/personality.shtml |title=Odiya Celebrities |date=2016 |publisher=Odiya.org |access-date=1 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306153914/http://www.odiya.org/personality/personality.shtml |archive-date=6 March 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> he studied molecules using molecular orbital and floating spherical gaussian orbital methods and his work on the nature of electron density and momentum distribution in atoms and molecules as well as molecular reactivitity on surfaces are reported to have widened the understanding of the subjects.<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 |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=1 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</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 1983, 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 | accessdate=12 November 2016}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Theoretical chemistry]]
* [[Computational chemistry]]
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite book|author=Alan Hinchliffe|title=Chemical Modelling: Applications and Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Wx-4vQJb98C&pg=PA309|year=2008|publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry|isbn=978-0-85404-248-7|pages=309–}}

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[[Category:Scientists from Odisha]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian chemists]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science]]
[[Category:Indian theoretical chemists]]
[[Category:Indian computational chemists]]
[[Category:2013 deaths]]

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