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| মৃণাল কুমার দাসগুপ্ত | |
 Prof. Mrinal Kumar Das Gupta | |
| Born | (1923-09-01)1 September 1923 |
| Died | 28 November 2005(2005-11-28) (aged 82) |
| Nationality | Indian |
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Mrinal Kumar Das GuptaFNI (1 September 1923 – 28 November 2005,Kolkata) was an Indianastronomer. He was born in erstwhile Barishal district in present-dayBangladesh. He received his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Physics fromDhaka University in 1944 and 1945 respectively. Later he joined the department of Radio Physics and Electronics of theUniversity of Calcutta as a researcher.
In 1954, he obtained his Ph.D. from theUniversity of Manchester. Later he became the head of the department of the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics atCalcutta University. Das Gupta worked withRobert Hanbury Brown andRoger Jennison, in building the firstintensity interferometers at radio wavelength in the early 1950s and measured the apparent angular structures of two radio sources,Cygnus A andCassiopeia A.[1] Das Gupta was elected as aFellow of the National Academy of Science in 1974 by theIndian National Science Academy, New Delhi and as aFellow of the Academy of Science by theIndian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. He was also the member of the now-infamous committee that investigatedDr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay who created the world's second and India's first child usingin-vitro fertilisation. He died on 28 November 2005 in Kolkata.[2]
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