Radhikaram Dhekial Phookan (RDP) was the first PhD in Chemistry from Assam and probably in India. RDP’s nine year hiatus at the Institute of Chemistry in the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and his publications are recorded for the first time. The faculty that taught RDP at Heidelberg, along with his mentors Robert Bunsen and Victor Meyer, presented a rare window of opportunity for a non-European to be a part of this pre-eminent centre of modern chemistry. RDP made full use of this opportunity by securing his PhD and subsequently working towards his habilitation. His work available as three publications in peer reviewed journals have been summarised in this paper. Unlike his contemporaries Acharya Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray and Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, RPD’s early demise, robbed him of the chance to play a seminal role, just when Indians were able to claim some of the limelight in natural sciences. This documentation has also cleared misconceptions related to his doctorate and its validity.

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历史记录-拉迪卡拉姆·德基尔·普坎（Radhikaram Dhekial Phookan）博士：阿萨姆邦的化学家

Radhikaram Dhekial Phookan（RDP）是阿萨姆邦（也许是印度）的第一位化学博士学位。RDP在德国海德堡大学化学研究所的工作中断了九年，他的出版物首次被记录下来。在海德堡教授RDP的教师以及他的导师Robert Bunsen和Victor Meyer，为非欧洲人成为这个杰出的现代化学中心的一部分提供了难得的机会之窗。RDP充分利用了这一机会，获得了博士学位并随后努力使其适应能力。本文总结了他在同行评审期刊上发表的三篇著作中的著作。RPD的早逝与他的同时代人Acharya Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray和Jagdish Chandra Bose爵士不同，他失去了发挥开创性作用的机会，就在印度人能够在自然科学领域占据一席之地的时候。该文档还清除了有关其博士学位及其有效性的误解。