Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee

Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee
Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee (Standing, second from right) with other scientists of Calcutta University
Born	(1893-04-23)23 April 1893
Died	10 May 1983(1983-05-10) (aged 90)
Occupation	Chemist

Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee CBE, FRSC (23 April 1893, Mahavdepur, Rajshahi District-today in Bangladesh – 10 May 1983), was a reputed Indian chemist as well as an internationally respected colloid chemist.

Education

Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee obtained his MSc (1915) from University of Calcutta specializing in electrochemistry, colloids, and soil science.^[1]

Positions served

He served as the Professor of Chemistry, University of Calcutta. As the director Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. JN Mukherjee also served as the Founder Director of Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee and as the Administrator of Board of Secondary Education, West Bengal from 1954-56. From 1956-58 he was the Member of Union Public Service Commission.^[1]

Academic and Research Achievements

JN Mukherjee’s work on the electrochemistry of colloids is considered highly significant. He is also well known for the boundary method he developed for determining the cataphoretic speed of colloid particles. His researches also shed light on soil properties and problems.

In 1919, he enunciated theory of the electro kinetic double layer and its ionic constitution.

In 1942, with N.C. Sen Gupta, he developed a simple rotary viscometer for the study of anomalous viscous properties. In 1944, he developed the method of differentiation of crude oils based on chromatography capillary analysis and fluorescence in UV light.^[2]

Going beyond the confines of laboratory research, Mukherjee brought to fore the importance of soil surveys for agricultural development. He prepared (with B Viswanath and AC Ukil) soil map of India in 1944 and later revised it in 1954.

Other Contributions

Mr. Mukherjee was responsible for the founding of the Indian National Science Academy as a member of the committee formed in accordance with the resolution adopted at a meeting of the Indian Science Congress Association held on January 3, 1934. He served as Chairman, Homeopathic Enquiry Committee, Sub-committee on Soil Conservation and Afforestation of National Planning Committee of Indian National Congress (1938), as member, Policy Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Viceroy’s Executive Council (1944–45). As member of Coordination Committee in Science, Government of India,Board and Technical Committee. As the CSIR Vice-President, Indian Statistical Institute, he chaired many technical committees of CSIR, ICAR and of many universities and of Government of West Bengal.^[1]

Awards and Honours

Padma Bhushan (1964)^[3]
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) (1943 Birthday Honours)^[4]
Fellow of Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore, Indian Chemical Association and Royal Society of Chemistry (London)
Founder Secretary, Indian Chemical Society, President (1935–36), Indian Society of Soil Science
Member, Council (1935–38) and as Vice-President (1941–42)
Foreign Secretary, INSA (1943–44) and (1947–51)
General President, Indian Science Congress Association (1952).^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 "INSA profile".
↑ "NeglectedScience :: Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee".
↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 36033. p. 2434. 28 May 1943. Retrieved 27 August 2015.

External links

Padma Bhushan award recipients (1960–69)

1960	Rabindra Nath Chaudhuri Nilakantha Das Raj Rajeshwardatt Shastri Dravid Kazi Nazrul Islam Hafiz Ali Khan Bal Krishna Sharma Naveen Ayyadevara Kaleswara Rao Acharya Shivpujan Sahay Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar Haridas Siddhanta Vagish

1961	Tridib Nath Banerjee Rustomji Bomanji Billimoria Seth Govind Das Verrier Elwin Niranjan Das Gulhati L. Venkatakrishna Iyer Rai Krishnadas Sumitranandan Pant Svetoslav Roerich Bhagwan Sahay Bindeshwari Prasad Verma Krishnaswami Venkataraman Ardeshir Ruttonji Wadia

1962	Ramaswamy Duraiswamy Ayyar Gyanesh Chandra Chatterjee Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar Prem Chandra Dhanda Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee Bade Ghulam Ali Khan Jafar Ali Khan Daulat Singh Kothari Mithan Jamshed Lam Sudhansu Sobhan Maitra Sisir Kumar Mitra Tarabai Modak Radhakamal Mukerjee Sudhindra Nath Mukerjee Niaz Fatehpuri Jal R. Patel Narayan Sitaram Phadke V. Raghavan Dukhan Ram T. S. Soundram Mahankali Seetharama Rao Raghunath Saran Moturi Satyanarayana Sitaram Seksaria Santosh Kumar Sen Tarlok Singh Radhika Raman Sinha

1963	Narendra Nath Bery Makhanlal Chaturvedi Omeo Kumar Das Nitish Chandra Laharry Badri Nath Prasad Kanuri Lakshmana Rao Rahul Sankrityayan Ramanlal Gokaldas Saraiya T. R. Seshadri Sardar Harnarain Singh M. L. Soni Ramkumar Verma

1964	Sheikh Abdullah Nuruddin Ahmed Rafiuddin Ahmed Jacob Chandy Kunji Lal Dubey Tushar Kanti Ghosh Anil Bandhu Guha Mohd. Abdul Hai Dara Nusserwanji Khurody Anukul Chandra Mukherjee Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee Bhole Nath Mullik R. K. Narayan Chintaman Govind Pandit Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel Bal Gandharva T. N. Ramachandran Khushwant Lal Wig

1965	Krishnaswami Balasubramanai Iyer Jogesh Chandra Banerjee Joginder Singh Dhillon Appasaheb Patwardhan Bhalchandra Babaji Dikshit P. O. Dunn Narasinh Narayan Godbole Nawang Gombu Sonam Gyatso Kashmir Singh Katoch Akbar Ali Khan S. L. Kirloskar Mohan Singh Kohli Pratap Chandra Lal Mohammad Mujeeb Jayant Narlikar Ramaswamy Rajaram K. R. Ramanathan Satyajit Ray Triguna Sen Santu Jouharmal Shahaney Shiv Sharma Harbaksh Singh Vrindavan Lal Verma Manikya Lal Verma

1966	T. S. Ramaswami Aiyer Babubhai Maneklal Chinai Puliyur Krishnaswamy Duraiswami Verghese Kurien Zubin Mehta K. P. Kesava Menon Bhabani Charan Mukharji Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai K. Shankar Pillai Vikram Sarabhai Vinayak Sitaram Sarwate Homi Sethna Jodh Singh Haribhau Upadhyaya

1967	Mulk Raj Anand Tara Cherian Mulk Ra Chopra Tulsi Das Krishna Kanta Handique Akshay Kumar Jain Pupul Jayakar Ali Akbar Khan D. P. Kohli Ramanathan Krishnan C. K. Lakshmanan T. M. Ponnambalam Mahadevan Kalyanji Vithalbhai Mehta S. I. Padmavati Vasantrao Bandoji Patil D. C. Pavate Datto Vaman Potdar B. Shiva Rao Khwaja Ghulam Saiyidain Asoke Kumar Sarkar Mihir Sen Ravi Shankar Kaikhushru Ruttonji Shroff M. L. Vasanthakumari

1968	Acharya Vishva Bandhu Prabhu Lal Bhatnagar Sudhir Ranjan Sengupta Mary Clubwala Jadhav K. Shivaram Karanth Bismillah Khan Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Sam Manekshaw Mansukhlal Atmaram Master M. G. K. Menon Waman Bapuji Metre Gujarmal Modi Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi Gopalan Narasimhan Benjamin Peary Pal Brahm Prakash Manikonda Chalapathi Rau C. R. Rao Radhanath Rath Jyotish Chandra Ray Mariadas Ruthnaswamy Firaq Gorakhpuri Shripad Damodar Satwalekar G. Sankara Kurup Periyasaamy Thooran Sarda Prasad Varma Shamaprasad Rupshanker Vasavada Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya

1969	Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Krishna Chandar Rahim-ud-in Khan Dagar Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala Keshavrao Krishnarao Datey Keshav Prasad Goenka Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer Vithalbhai Jhaveri Prithviraj Kapoor Kesarbai Kerkar Krishna Kripalani Adinath Lahiri Gobind Behari Lal Kasturbhai Lalbhai Lata Mangeshkar V. K. Narayana Menon Raman Madhavan Nair Saghar Nizami Nanasaheb Parulekar Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar Vitthal Laxman Phadke Raja Rao Niharranjan Ray Prafulla Kumar Sen Vallabhadas Vithaldas Shah Haroon Khan Sherwani Kasturiswami Sreenivasan Naval Tata S. S. Vasan

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

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