Key facts
- Born
- 20 August 1946, Kolkata
- State of birth
- Kolkata, West Bengal
- Sector
- Science & space
- Profession
- Indian geologist
- Gender
- Female
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Biography
Sudipta Sengupta is a professor in structural geology in Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, and a trained mountaineer. She is one of the first Indian women to set foot on Antarctica. She is also popularly known in India for her book Antarctica in Bengali and numerous articles and television interviews on geosciences. She has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals of structural geology. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded her the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for her contributions to Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 1991.
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Timeline
- 1946Born in Kolkata
- 1991Awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
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