Amitabha Bhattacharyya

Amitabha Bhattacharyya
Amitabha Bhattacharyya
Born	12 November 1931; Dhaka, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died	15 June 1992 (aged 60); Brussels, Belgium
Alma mater	University of Calcutta; IIEST Shibpur; Jadavpur University; University of Illinois;
Awards	FIE Award; 1966 Sir R. N. Mukherjee Gold Medal; 1971 IE K. F. Antia Memorial Prize; Chandra Prakash Memorial Prize; Sir Walter Pluckey Memorial Award; 1971 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize;
	Scientific career
Fields	Production engineering;
Institutions	Jadavpur University; IIT Kanpur;
Doctoral advisor	Gopal Chandra Sen;

Amitabha Bhattacharyya (12 November 1931 – 15 June 1992) was an Indian production engineer and the director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He was credited with the establishment of the department of production engineering at Jadavpur University. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 1971.

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