P.C. Roy Collection
5 Entries foundThis section contains articles on Prafulla Chandra Roy written by his students, and other official proceedings relevant to his career in the Presidency College. P. C. Roy (1861 – 1944) was a student of St. Xavier’s College and the University of Edinburgh and a teacher of the Chemistry Department of Presidency College. He discovered the stable compound mercurous nitrite in 1896. After retiring from Presidency College, he joined the University of Calcutta as the first Palit Professor of Chemistry. He founded the India’s first pharmaceutical company – Bengal Chemical & Pharmaceutical Works in 1901. He was a nationalist “revolutionary in the garb of a scientist” who used to believe that “science can afford to wait but Swaraj cannot”. Apart from scientific papers, he wrote profusely in Bengali on various subjects. He was the author of A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of Sixteenth Century (Volume 1 in 1902 and Volume 2 in 1909) and Life and Experience of a Bengali Chemist (Volume 1 in 1932 and Volume 2 in 1935).
