Birth Centenary of Anil Kumar Ganguly (1918–1988)

The Atomic Energy Programme in India under Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha, during its evolution, had the advantage of the professional expertise of several experts. Among them, hardly a few took indelible, firm strides, as Dr Anil Kumar Ganguly did. He was an environmentalist to the core and a born teacher. The contributions of Ganguly to the setting up of the multi-disciplinary health physics sciences will be remembered for ever. Anil Kumar Ganguly was the person whom Homi Bhabha selected from his successful academic perch in radiation chemistry at the University of Notre Dame in USA, where Ganguly was a research associate and colleague of Prof. Magee. His pioneering work there had led to the famous Ganguly–Magee theory.