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The '''Palit Chair of Physics''' is a [[physics]] professorship in the [[University of Calcutta]], India.<ref>[http://www.caluniv.ac.in/academic/chairs.htm "Prestigious Chairs"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305120322/http://www.caluniv.ac.in/academic/chairs.htm |date=5 March 2016 }} University of Calcutta. Retrieved 2015-08-22.</ref> The post is named after [[Taraknath Palit|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]].<ref>[http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P02-1321 "Indian Fellow"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20130415005209/http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P02-1321 |date=2013-04-15 }} Indian National Science Academy. Retrieved 2015-08-22.</ref><br />
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==List of Taraknath Palit Professors of Physics==<br />
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!Name<br />
!Term<br />
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| [[C. V. Raman]]<br />
|1917-1932<br />
|-<br />
| [[Debendra Mohan Bose]]<br />
|1932-1938<br />
|-<br />
| [[Meghnad Saha]]<br />
|1938-1953<br />
|-<br />
| [[Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri]]<br />
|1953-1959<br />
|-<br />
| [[Chanchal Kumar Majumdar]]<br />
|1975-1982<ref>{{Cite web|title=INSA :: Deceased Fellow Detail|url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/N82-0427|access-date=2020-07-03|website=insaindia.res.in}}</ref><br />
|-<br />
|[[Amitava Raychaudhuri]]<br />
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|-<br />
|}<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:1917 establishments in India]]<br />
[[Category:Professorships in physics]]<br />
[[Category:University of Calcutta faculty]]</div>->WomenProj