Ajoy Roy
| Ajoy Roy | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 1, 1935 Dinajpur, British India (now Bangladesh) |
| Education | PhD (Physical chemistry) |
| Alma mater | |
| Spouse(s) | Shefali Roy |
| Children | Avijit Roy |
Ajoy Roy (born March 1, 1935) is a retired Professor of Physics at the Dhaka University of Bangladesh, but is best known for his prominent role in Bangladesh human rights activism and freethinking. He has been one of the eminent educationists promoting secular humanism in Bangladesh.
He is founder and President of the Shishka Andolan Mancha (Platform For Education-Movement) and chairman of Shamriti Mancha (Platform for peace-harmony-tranquility).
Roy is editor in chief of Muktanwesa (Bengali: মুক্তান্বেষা) magazine, a Bengali publication for promoting freethinking and Secular Humanism. He is also the member of advisory board of the Mukto-Mona, an internet forum of freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists and humanists of mainly Bengali and South Asian descent. He is an Honorary Associate of the Rationalist International, an organization that defends rationalist ideas. He has been contributing as a columnist to the national newspapers of Bangladesh. In 2012, he received Ekushey Padak, the highest civilian award of Bangladesh.
Roy was born in Dinajpur, Bangladesh. He received his Bachelor's degree and the Master's degree from Dhaka University, and took his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physical Chemistry from Leeds University of England. He was among a group of teachers who formed an advanced center of Solid State Physics and crystallography established in 1969 under the sponsorship of UNESCO. His work led to the discovery of some fundamental processes in radiation chemistry of aliphatic and amino acids and their salts. The process of dissociative electron capture and the subsequent fate of electron is considered to be his major contribution as a scientist. His scientific works have also been cited in the contents of volumes (1–50) of Progress in NMR Spectroscopy.
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