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16 november 2007 charleston , west virginia barisal , india 225px inorganic chemistry environmental chemistry 1 january 1923 seba faraway land , indian children 's stories -rrb- sen , -lrb- author of tales from a basudeb_dassarma . jpg basudeb dassarma
 basudeb dassarma
basudeb dassarma

basudeb dassarma -lrb- 1923 -- 2007 -rrb- was a chemist and faculty at the university college of science and technology of the university of calcutta .
he was among an early group of indian scholars and professionals to emigrate to the us .
he did groundbreaking research with john c. bailar , jr. at the university of illinois urbana-champaign , won an american chemical society award in 1971 for his contributions to the understanding of coordination and stereo-chemistry of metal complexes , and became a naturalized us citizen in 1972 .
he was a professor of chemistry at west virginia state college from 1966 to 1992 , president of the west virginia academy of science , 1981 -- 82 , and a community leader and spokesman on environmental issues in the kanawha valley around charleston , west virginia .
his memoir was published in 2010 posthumously .
