Chemistry

Mar

2023

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The Lost Heart

Community, Humans of KGP, Institute, ObituaryChemistry, IIT Kharagpur, Obituary, Professor, RTC, Rubber Technology Center, Rubber Technology Centre

Death is a shout of silent breathe I shall reside in your airy heath You will be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday This journey of life has been a pray Nothing is hurt and nothing is lost A brief moment that will soon exhaust For this is a journey, we all must intake We shall laugh at the parting ways For we will meet again I am the soft star that will remain And if a tear starts to fall I shall catch it through it all I am with you when the times are good To share a…

Mar

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Build small, think big

Expert InsightBen Feringa, Chemistry, molecular engines, Nobel laureate, Nobel Prize

“The duty of universities, more than ever now, is to train students to think critically,” said Prof. Ben L. Feringa during his visit to IIT Kharagpur Professor Ben L. Feringa won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Jean-Pierre Sauvage (France) and Sir James Fraser Stoddart (UK) for their work on the development of molecular machines. He has been a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Groningen since 1988. In 1999, his discovery of the 'molecular motor' - a light-driven rotary molecular motor -was widely recognized as a spectacular scientific breakthrough. Prof. Feringa is internationally recognized as a…