# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/prafulla-chandra-ray
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:26:58.520Z

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name: "Prafulla Chandra Ray"
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description: "Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray CIE FNI FRASB FIAS FCS was a Bengali chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist. He established the first modern Indian research school in chemistry and is regarded as the father of Indian chemistry."
tagline: "Bengali chemist, educationist, poet, historian, industrialist and philanthropist (1861–1944)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump