Hiranmay Sen Gupta, bn, হিরন্ময় সেন গুপ্ত, (1 August 1934 – 8 January 2022) was a Bangladeshi physicist who specialised in

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. In a career spanning five decades he published over 200 research papers and was made a fellow of

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in 1977.

Biography

Sen Gupta was born on 1 August 1934 in

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in the then

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to Suruchi Bala and Jitendra Nath Sen Gupta. He obtained his

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from the

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in 1963, under the supervision of

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. His doctoral thesis studied the scattering of Helium-3 particles. He stayed back in the United Kingdom conducting his postdoctoral research at the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the

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between 1973 and 1976, and at the Department of Physics,

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between 1981 and 1982. He served as the professor of physics at the

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between 1955 and 2000, where he had also served as the chairman of the department. He was also a senior associate at

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(

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) in

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during 1982 and 1992. He was also a visiting professor at the

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in Fukuoka, Japan in 1994. He retired in 2000. In a career spanning five decades he published over 200 research papers and was a fellow of

since 1977. His research interests included condensed matter theory specializing in the study of

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and

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. 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. Sen Gupta died in

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city i ...

at the BIRDEM General Hospital on 8 January 2022, at the age of 87.Nuclear physicist Hiranmay Sen Gupta dies
/ref> 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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1934 births 2022 deaths Bangladeshi physicists Bengali physicists Nuclear physicists Theoretical physicists People from Barisal University of Dhaka alumni Alumni of the University of London Academic staff of the University of Dhaka Fellows of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences Physics educators

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