Mihir Chowdhury

Post retirement, he served as a senior scientist of the Indian National Science Academy, a position he held till 2006.

He also continued his association with the post graduate teaching programs of Calcutta University and Presidency College on honorary basis.

His elder sister Prof. Amita Datta is a noted economist who taught at Delhi University, Lady Brabourne and Presidency Colleges, Kolkata.

His work on the Robert S. Mulliken's conjecture is reported to have assisted him to ratify for the first time that the CT band is polarised along the intermolecular axis.

[note 1] He was associated with a number of science journals as a member of their editorial boards and guided 30 doctoral scholars in their studies.

[10][11][12] His involvement in the efforts to popularise science included a series of lectures on topics such as LASER- the wonderful toy, Hundred years of electron discovery, and Symmetry in Chemistry and Physics[2] and his contributions have earned him mention from other authors.