Ashesh Prasad Mitra

Ashesh Prasad Mitra
A. P. Mitra
Born (1927-02-21)February 21, 1927
Kolkata, West Bengal
Died September 3, 2007(2007-09-03) (aged 80)
New Delhi
Citizenship Indian
Nationality Indian
Known for Radio & Space Physics
Notable awards Padma Bhushan, 1987

Ashesh Prasad Mitra (21 February 1927 - 3 September 2007), FRS, was the former Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) from 26.2.1986 to 16.4.1991.[1] He was recipient of the Padma Bhushan award in the year 1987.[2] He died at New Delhi in September, 2007.[3]

Career

Mitra studied at the Bangabasi College, an affiliated college of the University of Calcutta.

He was a foreign fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences [4]

He was the director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) from 1982 to 1986.

Research

Radio & Space Physics was his area of specialization.

He performed major work in the field of earth's near-space environment, through group based and space techniques. He worked on cosmic radio noise for studying the upper atmosphere led to a series of discoveries in ionosphere, solar physics and cosmic rays.

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