Mrinal Kumar Das Gupta

Mrinal Kumar Das Gupta FNI (1 September 1923 – 28 November 2005, Kolkata) was an Indian astronomer. He was born in erstwhile Barishal district in present-day Bangladesh. He received his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Physics from Dhaka University in 1944 and 1945 respectively. Later he joined the department of Radio Physics and Electronics of the University of Calcutta as a researcher.

Mrinal Kumar Das Gupta FNI
মৃণাল কুমার দাসগুপ্ত
Prof. Mrinal Kumar Das Gupta
Born	(1923-09-01)1 September 1923 Barisal District, Bengal (now in Bangladesh)
Died	28 November 2005(2005-11-28) (aged 82) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	St. Gregory's School, Dacca Dacca University (B.Sc, M.Sc) Manchester University,(PhD), 1954
Known for	Discovery of the first double radio source Cygnus A First Intensity interferometer First to design, fabricate and operate a long base line post detection correlator radio interferometer Cygnus A and Cassiopeia A first indirect evidence of black hole
Awards	SK Mitra Memorial Lecture Award of INSA (1990) Fellow of the National Institute of Science, (now known as Indian National Science Academy) Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
Scientific career
Fields	Physics Astronomy Radio Astronomy
Institutions	University of Calcutta Lacturer of Institute of radio physics and electronics, Kolkata Jodrell Bank Observatory Astronomical Society of India, 1990
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In 1954, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester. Later he became the head of the department of the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics at Calcutta University. Das Gupta worked with Robert Hanbury Brown and Roger Jennison, in building the first intensity interferometers at radio wavelength in the early 1950s and measured the apparent angular structures of two radio sources, Cygnus A and Cassiopeia A.^[1] Das Gupta was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Science in 1974 by the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi and as a Fellow of the Academy of Science by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. He was also the member of the now-infamous committee that investigated Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay who created the world's second and India's first child using in-vitro fertilisation. He died on 28 November 2005 in Kolkata.^[2]

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1. Jennison, R. C.; Das Gupta, M. K. (28 November 1953). "Fine Structure of the Extra-terrestrial Radio Source Cygnus I". Nature. 172 (4387): 996–7. Bibcode:1953Natur.172..996J. doi:10.1038/172996a0. S2CID 4251058.
2. History 2011-10-24 at the Wayback Machine Institute of Radio Physics & Electronics, University of Calcutta website