to United States with his family and joined the West Virginia State University as a professor in chemistry. He retired from the West Virginia State University in the year 1991 and remained as a professor emerita until 1992. Basudeb also served as research chemist for Union Carbide since 1966. From 1971-1972 Basudeb served as the Certified Research Administrator in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In 1988 he also served as the Project manager in National Institute of Chemical Studies. Major accomplishments He won the American Chemical Society Award in 1971 for his research and publications on coordination and stereo-chemistry of metal complexes. He won the West Virginia State University's Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year award in 1973. References 20th-century American chemists 20th-century American educators 20th-century Indian chemists 20th-century Indian educators 1923 births 2007 deaths Bengali chemists Brojomohun College alumni Chemists from West Virginia Indian emigrants to the United States Indian inorganic chemists Naturalized citizens of the United States Oak Ridge National Laboratory people People from Barisal Educators from Charleston, West Virginia University of Calcutta alumni Academic staff of the University of Calcutta University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty West Virginia State University faculty