•
Bibha Chowdhuri (Alumni of Physics Department and she was the only woman to complete an M.Sc. degree in the year 1936. She worked on particle physics and cosmic rays.) •
Asima Chatterjee (Alumni and later Khaira Professor of Chemistry Department. She was the first woman to receive a
Doctorate of Science from an
Indian university. She held office as a member of
Rajya Sabha, president of
Indian Science Congress Association and was appointed for the
Padma Bhushan,
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology and D.Sc. (honoris causa) degree by Calcutta University.) •
Purnima Sinha (Alumni of Physics department and was one of the first Bengali Women to receive a doctorate in physics from an Indian University.) •
Satyendra Nath Bose (Alumni and later Professor of the physics department. Fellow of
Royal Society known for
Bose-Einstein Condensate and
Bosons) •
Meghnad Saha (Alumni and later Khaira Professor of Physics department, fellow of
Royal Society known for
Saha Ionisation Equation and is regarded as father of Modern
Astrophysics.) •
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (Alumni, fellow of
Royal Society and founder of
Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata) •
Anadi Sankar Gupta (Alumni and Professor of Applied Mathematics Department, an Indian Mathematician, S.S. Bhatnagar Awardee,
INSA Senior Scientist and
Emeritus Professor of IIT Kharagpur.) •
Sisir Kumar Mitra (Alumni of Physics Department, fellow of
Royal Society, founder/ HOD of radio physics department and father of radio science in India) •
Jnanchandra Ghosh (Alumni and later Professor of Chemistry, founder of IIT Model and first director of
IIT Kharagpur.) •
Jnanendranath Mukherjee (Alumni and later Professor of Chemistry department,
Padma Bhusan Awardee,
Commander of Order of British Empire, fellow of
Royal Society and Ex-General President of ISA, 1952) •
Mrinal Sen (Alumni of Physics department, Indian film director. He has won
National Film Awards 18 times along with French
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1985, the
Padma Bhushan in 2008 and the
Order of Friendship in 2005 and the
Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2005 for his contribution to Indian cinema.) •
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (Alumni of Physics Department, An Indian Physicist known for his most significant contribution Raychaudhuri equation
Raychaudhuri equation.) •
Chanchal Kumar Majumdar (Alumni of Physics Department, A
Condensed matter physicist and Founder Director of
S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences Kolkata. He is an elected fellow of the
Indian National Science Academy, the
National Academy of Sciences, India and the
Indian Academy of Sciences – as well a member of the
New York Academy of Sciences and the
American Physical Society.) •
Mihir Chowdhury (Alumni of chemistry department and elected follow of the
Indian National Science Academy, the
Indian Academy of Sciences and recipient of
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology.) •
Tapan Sinha (Alumni of physics department. He was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time along with
Satyajit Ray and
Mrinal Sen. He have won numerous national and international awards.) •
Mani Lal Bhaumik (Alumni of physics department, founder of immensely popular
LASIK eye surgery. He is a bestselling author, celebrated physicist, entrepreneur and philanthropist.) •
Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri (Alumni of radio physics department, A senior computer scientist at
ISI Kolkata, A J.C. Bose Fellow, Life Fellow of
IEEE "for contributions to pattern recognition, especially Indian language script OCR, document processing and natural language processing".) •
Bikas Chakrabarti (Alumni of Physics department, An Indian Physicist and emeritus professor of physics at
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics.) •
Sankar Kumar Pal (Alumni of radio physics and electronics department, Computer Scientist and AI Researcher, Ex-Director of
Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata and
Padma Shri Awardee of 2013. He is also a recipient of
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology.) •
Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya (Alumni of Physics department, An India theoretical
High energy physicist and a senior professor at
Harish-Chandra Research Institute. He is an elected fellow of
National Academy of Sciences and
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Awardee 2003.) •
Biman Bagchi (Alumni of Chemistry Department, A theoretical chemist and an Amrut Mody Professor at the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the
Indian Institute of Science.) •
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (Alumni of computer science engineering department and present Director of
Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata. She is also
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, Infosys Awardee 2017 and TWAS Prize in 2018) •
Kankan Bhattacharyya (Alumni of chemistry department, a modern non-linear
laser spectroscopy scientist. He is the Ex-director and chair professor of
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, the oldest centre for scientific research in Asia.) •
Santanu Bhattacharya (Alumni of chemistry department, and elected follow of The World Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, and Indian Academy of Science, an Indian bio-organic chemist, a professor at the
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and former Director of the
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. He is N-Bios laureate and recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize and TWAS prize in Chemistry.) •
Anuradha Lohia (Alumni of physiology department, an Indian molecular parasitologist and present Vice Chancellor of
Presidency University. She is also a fellow of
Indian Academy of Sciences and an Ex-Chairperson of
Bose Institute in Kolkata.) •
Phoolan Prasad (Alumni of Applied Mathematics Department, 1983
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Awardee and Fellow of
INSA. He is currently a professor at Department of Mathematics at
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.) •
Indrani Bose (Alumni of Physics department and fellow of the
Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, the
National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad and was the first recipient of the Stree Shakthi Science Samman award (2000). She is currently a senior professor at
Bose Institute,
Kolkata.) •
Deb Shankar Ray (Alumni of Chemistry Department and fellow of
INSA,
Indian Academy of Sciences, West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and recipient of
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology. He is currently a professor at department of physical chemistry at
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata.) •
Bidyendu Mohan Deb (Alumni of chemistry department and elected follow of the
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, The
World Academy of Sciences,
Indian National Science Academy, the
Indian Academy of Sciences and recipient of
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology. He is currently a professor at
IISER Kolkata.) •
Debashis Mukherjee (Alumni of chemistry department. He is a recipient of
Humboldt Prize,
Chemical Pioneer Award,
Indian Academy of Sciences,
Indian National Science Academy and
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology. He is currently professor emeritus at the
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science.) •
Rahul Banerjee (Alumni of chemistry department and currently professor at
IISER Kolkata. Banerjee is a fellow of
Royal Society of Chemistry and
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology among many others.) •
Anil Kumar Gain (Alumni of Applied Mathematics Department. He was an Indian Mathematician who worked closely with
Ronald Fisher on
Applied Statistics under the guidance of
Henry Ellis Daniels, who was then President of the
Royal Statistical Society.) •
Animesh Chakravorty (Alumni of chemistry department and Ex-HOD of chemistry department of
IIT Kanpur and
IACS Kolkata and visiting professor at
Texas A&M University. He is a recipient of
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology 1975 and
TWAS Prize among other fellowships.) •
Siva Brata Bhattacherjee (Alumni of Physics department and an
X-ray crystallographer who worked with Physicist
Satyendra Nath Bose. Since 1945 he was a Khaira Professor at Science College and was also a faculty member at
University of Manchester) •
Lilabati Bhattacharjee (Alumni of Physics Department and an Indian
crystallographer who worked with Physicist
Satyendra Nath Bose and known from contributions in fields like structural crystallography, optical transform methods, computer programming, phase transformations, crystal growth, topography and instrumentation. •
Usha Ranjan Ghatak (Alumni of chemistry department, Ex-Director of
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science and elected fellow of
Indian Academy of Sciences,
Indian National Science Academy and the
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology.) •
Partha Ghose (Alumni of Physics department and one of the last doctoral students of the then National Professor of Physics
Satyendra Nath Bose. He is an Indian Physicist, Author, Philosopher, Musician and former professor at the
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences. •
Asok Kumar Barua (Alumni of Physics department and Honorary Professor Emeritus at
IIEST Shibpur. He is an Indian
Condensed matter physicist whose main focus on research is in
Optoelectronics. •
Debatosh Guha (Alumni of Radio Physics and Electronics Department, an Indian Antenna Researcher and currently a professor of the same Institute.) •
Sushmita Mitra (Alumni of Computer Science Engineering Department and currently Head INAE Chair Professor at the Machine Intelligence Unit at
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.) •
Aditi Sen De (Alumni of Applied mathematics department, An Indian Physicist and currently associate professor in quantum information and computation group at
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.) •
Kalobaran Maiti (Alumni of Physics department and recipient of
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology. He is currently a professor of condensed matter Physics at
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research "TIFR".) •
Ujjwal Maulik (Alumni of Computer Science Engineering Department, an IEEE and INAE Fellow and Professor and former Head, Computer Science Engineering Department, Jadavpur University.) •
Akhil Ranjan Chakravarty (Alumni of Chemistry department, an Indian organic chemist and currently professor at
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.) •
Rabindranath Mukherjee (Alumni of Chemistry department, an Indian chemistry chair professor of
IIT Kanpur and Director of
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata.) •
Palash Baran Pal (Alumni of Physics department, An Indian Theoritical Physicist, Writer, Linguist, Poet and currently emeritus Professor at Calcutta University.) •
Sudhansu Datta Majumdar (Alumni of Physics Department and Faculty member at
IIT Kharagpur. He was president of
Calcutta Mathematical Society.) •
Amar Nath Bhaduri (Alumni of chemistry department and an Indian Chemical Biologist known for his work on
UDP-glucose 4-epimerase and
Leishmania donovani. He was the director of
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology "IICB".) •
Samarendra Nath Roy (Alumni of Applied Mathematics Department, an Indian born American Mathematician and Applied Statistician well known for his pioneering contribution to
multivariate statistical analysis.) •
Sandipta Sen ( Alumni of master's degree in Applied psychology) •
Rupamanjari Ghosh (Alumni of Physics Department, a professor of Physics Department at
Jawaharlal Nehru University and present Vice Chancellor at
Shiv Nadar University, Uttar Pradesh.) •
Chitra Dutta (Alumni of Physics Department, an Indian Physicist who is also a Chief Scientist and Head of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics Division at
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology.) •
Maitree Bhattacharyya (Alumni of Physics Department, an Indian Physicist and currently professor of department of Biochemistry at
University of Calcutta and worked as visiting scientist at
University of California, San Diego.) •
Moumita Dutta (Alumni of Applied Physics department, an Indian Physicist currently working at the
Space Applications Centre "SAC",
Indian Space Research Organisation "ISRO" - Ahmedabad as a scientist/engineer.) •
Ashesh Prosad Mitra (Alumni of Physics Department, An Indian Physicist who headed the National Physics Laboratory in
Delhi, India and was the Director-General of the
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).) •
Samarendra Kumar Mitra (Alumni of both Chemistry and Applied Mathematics Department, He was an Indian Scientist who planned, designed and developed, in 1953, India's first computer (an electron-analog computer). •
Raj Chandra Bose (Alumni of both pure and applied mathematics department, He was a well-known Mathematician and Statistician.) •
Anish Deb (Alumni and later professor of Applied Physics Department, He was also a well-known science fiction Bengali writer.) •
Asim Duttaroy (Alumni of the Biochemistry Department, and currently serving as a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has been invited five times by the Nobel committee for accessing nominees for this prestigious award in the field of Physiology or in Medicine.) •
P. P. Vaidyanathan (Alumni of radio-physics and electronics, he is a renowned electrical engineering professor at Caltech, known for his groundbreaking work in digital signal processing, filter banks, image processing, and more. He has authored four books and hundreds of papers, and holds degrees from Kolkata and
UC Santa Barbara.) ==Notable faculty ==