# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/palash-baran-pal
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:59:27.245Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/palash-baran-pal"
name: "Palash Baran Pal"
slug: "palash-baran-pal"
description: "Palash Baran Pal is an Indian theoretical physicist, an Emeritus Professor in the Physics Department of Science College, Calcutta University, Kolkata, a writer, a linguist and a poet. His main area of research is Particle Physics. His works in the area of neutrino physics and relativistic treatment of particle properties in matter are well recognized in the particle physics community. Apart from his scientific contributions, he has authored well known text books in physics as well as several popular science literature in Bengali to popularize science. He was the first to create digital Bengali fonts for IBM PC."
tagline: "Indian physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Palash_Baran_Pal_-_Kolkata_2012-07-31_0699.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-09-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.40414
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.saha.ac.in/theory/palashbaran.pal/"
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    title: "بالاش باران بال"
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    title: "پالاس بران پال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "পলাশবরণ পাল"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palash_Baran_Pal"
    title: "Palash Baran Pal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump