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This is a list of honorary degree recipients from the University of Calcutta. Honorary degree recipients This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Color key Light green indicates "(Special)"; pink indicates "(Posthumous)" Year Name Degree 1876 H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales ...
The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; abbreviated as CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate colleges and 16 institutes in Kolkata and nearby areas. It was established on 24 January 1857 and is the oldest multidisciplinary university of Indian ...
Abhijit Banerjee. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (born 21 February 1961) [1][2] is an Indian-born American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [3][4] He is co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), an MIT based global ...
Chinmoy Guha. Sir Chinmoy Guha (born September 1958 in Kolkata, India) is Professor Emeritus [1] at the University of Calcutta, [2] a Bengali essayist and translator, and a scholar of French language and literature. He has served as the Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University and Director of Publications, Embassy of France, New Delhi. [3]
Lady Brabourne College. Lady Brabourne College (LBC) is an institution for women's education in Kolkata, India. The college admits undergraduates and post-graduates, and awards degrees from the University of Calcutta. It is a state government administered college and is in one of the more cosmopolitan localities of the city.
Bose with other scientists at the University of Calcutta Bust of Satyendra Nath Bose which is placed in the garden of Birla Industrial & Technological Museum. In 1937, Rabindranath Tagore dedicated his only book on science, Visva–Parichay, to Satyendra Nath Bose. Bose was honoured with the title Padma Vibhushan by the Indian Government in ...
In 2005, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest honor given to an Indian filmmaker, was awarded to him by the Government of India for the year 2003. [22] In 2009, he was awarded an List of University of Calcutta honorary degree recipients honorary D. Litt. by the University of Calcutta. [23] In 2017, he was inducted as a member of the Oscar ...
Presidency College, Calcutta University Computer Scientist, First woman Director of Indian Statistical Institute, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate in Engineering Science, 2010, TWAS Prize for Engineering Sciences, 2018, [ 33 ] Infosys Prize 2017 in Engineering and Computer Science [ 34 ]