![]() ![]() ![]() He realized the potential that lay within her and enrolled her in a research team studying crystal structures using X-ray diffraction. ![]() Her unusual interest caught the attention of Professor Satyendra Nath Bose, who had joined Calcutta University as the Khaira Professor of Physics in 1945. While Purnima’s sisters perused diverse fields like mathematics, economy and chemistry, she went on to study Physics. Such was her expertise as a hand-on scientist.ĭr Sinha was born on 12 October 1927into a liberal family and her father, Naresh Chandra Sengupta, was a constitutional lawyer who advocated the importance of women education. Just behind Bidhan Roy’s house in Kolkata, she came across surplus army equipment being sold as scrap after World War II, and she put them together to make the X-Ray apparatus. Dr Sinha was experimenting at theKhaira laboratory and looking for spare parts to construct an X-ray machine needed for her doctoral research. 1950s was a time just after India’s independence. Not just completing a degree, Dr Sinha was so innovative that she even made an X Ray machine from scraps recovered during World War II. One such woman was Dr Purnima Sinha, the first female physicist from Calcutta University, who did her PhD way back in the 1950s when women in the domain of a subject like Physics was almost unheard of. These were the very women who set their own benchmarks and motivated females of later generations. When we talk of women empowerment in modern India, we often fail to take names of so many women scientists who made us proud decades ago, when women were hardly even allowed to study beyond a certain point. ![]()
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