Sreebrata Goswami is a Reader at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta. His major research interests include synthesis of coordination compounds with special reference to metal promoted chemical transformation of coordinated organic ligands and electronic structure of compounds of redox non-innocent ligands.

Samaresh Bhattacharya is a Reader at the Department of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry Section, Jadavpur University, Calcutta. His current research interest is in the coordination chemistry of platinum metals with special reference to synthesis, structure and reactivities.

Prafulla Chandra Rây was the pathfinder and originator of chemical research in modern India. He was introduced to research by Alexander Crum Brown, a notable chemist and teacher at Edinburgh University. His doctoral work was on the chemistry of double sulphates. He received the D.Sc. degree of Edinburgh University in 1887. A year later he returned to India and in 1889 started his career as a junior professor in Presidency College, Calcutta. He was then twenty-eight. His research activities flourished in the laboratories of the college even though the facilities were inadequate. He moved to the College of Science of Calcutta University as the first Palit Professor of Chemistry in the year 1916 and the work of his school continued there with renewed vigour.

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Address for Correspondence
Sreebrata Goswami
Department of Inorganic Chemistry
Indian Association for the
Cultivation of Science
Calcutta 700032, India.

Samaresh Bhattacharya
Department of Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry Section
Jadavpur University
Calcutta 700032, India.