A commemorative postage stamp on the Birth Centenary of Acharya Sir P. C. Roy, an Bengali chemist and nationalist, founder of 1^st Indian pharmaceutical company ‘Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals’, author of A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of Sixteenth Century :

Issued by India

Issued on Aug 2, 1961

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Colour : Single colour

Denomination : 15 nP

Name : Prafulla Chandra Raychowdhury

Born on Aug 2, 1861 at Raruli–Katipara, Jessore district, Bengal Presidency, British India [now in Khulna district, Khulna division, Bangladesh]

Died on Jun 16, 1944 at Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India

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