The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) is an institution of basic research and training in physical and biophysical sciences located in
Bidhannagar
Bidhannagar is a planned urban agglomeration and city and a municipal corporation of the North 24 Parganas in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is in Greater Kolkata region and also a part of the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Dev ...
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Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
, India. The institute is named after the famous Indian physicist
Meghnad Saha
Meghnad Saha (6 October 1893 – 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars. His work allowed astronomers to accurately relate the spe ...
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Previous Directors
* Ajit Mohanty
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Bikas Chakrabarti
Bikas Kanta Chakrabarti (born 14 December 1952 in Kolkata (erstwhile Calcutta) is an Indian physicist. Since January 2018, he is emeritus professor of physics at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.
Biography
Chakrabarti r ...
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Milan K. Sanyal 009 to 2014*
Bikash Sinha
Bikash Sinha (born 1945) is an Indian physicist, active in the fields of nuclear physics and high energy physics. Bikash Sinha was the director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre and the chairman of th ...
* Manoj K. Pal
* D. N. Kundu
* B. D. Nag Chowdhury
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Meghnad Saha
Meghnad Saha (6 October 1893 – 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars. His work allowed astronomers to accurately relate the spe ...
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Education in India
Education in India is primarily managed by state-run public education system, which fall under the command of the government at three levels: central, state and local. Under various articles of the Indian Constitution and the Right of Chi ...
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List of colleges in West Bengal
Colleges affiliated with University of Calcutta
For the list of colleges under University of Calcutta, see the article.
Colleges affiliated with Bankura University
* Bankura Christian College
* Bankura Sammilani College
* Bankura Zilla Sa ...
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Education in West Bengal
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Research institutes in West Bengal
Research institutes in Kolkata
Homi Bhabha National Institute
Physics institutes
University of Calcutta affiliates
Research institutes established in 1949
1949 establishments in West Bengal