Hiranmay Sengupta

Hiranmay Sen Gupta, , (1 August 1934 – 8 January 2022) was a Bangladeshi physicist who specialised in nuclear physics. In a career spanning five decades he published over 200 research papers and was made a fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences in 1977.

Biography Sen Gupta was born on 1 August 1934 in Barisal in the then Bengal Presidency of British India to Suruchi Bala and Jitendra Nath Sen Gupta. He obtained his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the University of London in 1963, under the supervision of Joseph Rotblat. He stayed back in the United Kingdom conducting his postdoctoral research at the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Oxford between 1973 and 1976, and at the Department of Physics, University of Birmingham between 1981 and 1982.

He served as the professor of physics at the University of Dhaka between 1955 and 2000, where he had also served as the chairman of the department. He was also a senior associate at Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste during 1982 and 1992. His book in Bangla on nuclear physics, published by University of Dhaka, was part of the curriculum for MSc and MPhil students at the university. He was married and had two sons.

Awards H.P. Roy Gold Medal (1967) A. Rob Chowdhury Gold Medal (1975) Sonali Bank Gold Medal (1984) Ibrahim Gold Medal (1992)

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