A commemorative postage stamp on the Birth Centenary of Acharya Sir P. C. Roy, an Bengali chemist and nationalist, founder of 1st 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
