Bidhan Chandra Roy
Sign in to saveAlso known as Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
former Chief Minister of West Bengal, India (1882–1962)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1882
- Died
- 1962
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Dr. B. C. Roy national award fund and silver jubilee research award fund souvenir, 1969-70
- Towards a prosperous India
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,607x
- The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
· 1996 · cited 18,867x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 16,052x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,984x
- The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation.
· 1995 · cited 14,843x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Governor
- Chakravarti Rajagopalachari , Kailash Nath Katju
- Preceded by
- Prafulla Chandra Ghosh
- Succeeded by
- Position abolished , (himself as Chief Minister of West Bengal )
- Constituency
- Bowbazar
- Born
- ( 1882-07-01 ) 1 July 1882, Patna , Bengal Presidency , British India (present-day Bihar , India)
- Died
- 1 July 1962 (1962-07-01) (aged 80), Calcutta (present-day Kolkata ), West Bengal , India
- Party
- Indian National Congress
- Alma mater
- Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata , St Bartholomew's Hospital
- Profession
- Physician & Surgeon Politician
- Awards
- Bharat Ratna (1961)
via Wikipedia infobox
~10 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Bidhan Chandra Roy (1 July 1882 – 1 July 1962) was an Indian physician and politician who served as Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1950 until his death in 1962. He played a key role in the founding of several institutions and cities like Salt Lake (now a part of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation), Kalyani, Durgapur and Ashoknagar Kalyangarh.
In India, the National Doctors' Day is celebrated in his memory every year on 1 July. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour in 1961.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bidhan Chandra Roy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.