Krishna Chandra Majumdar was born (1945) at Kalma. Bikrampur, Dhaka. He had early education from Kalma High School and moved to West Bengal in 1956 due to communal disturbances. Krishna C. Majumdar received his B.Sc. (1966) and M.Sc. (1968) degrees from the University of Calcutta and Ph.D.(1972) from the University of Idaho under the direction of Professor B. S. Thyagarajan and continued in the same University as a research associate till mid 1974. He also carried out postdoctoral work (University of Alberta) with Professor J. W. Lown till mid. 1977. He was with University of Kalyani, lecturer (1977), reader (1984), Professor (1995-2010). He superannuated in 2005 and joined as UGC Emeritus Fellow in 2012 at the same University. He had also served North-Eastern Hill University as a visiting Professor (1996), Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) as Associate Professor during 1990–1991, and Tezpur University (2011) as professor of Eminence. His research interests center around synthetic organic chemistry and design and synthesis of liquid crystals with over 423 publications including review articles and book chapters. He has also edited a Wiley-VCH publication “Heterocycles in natural product synthesis”. He is a fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology, and recipient of the Chemical Research Society of India medal (2004) and Indian Chemical Society award (2006).