# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/puspashree-pattnaik
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:58:16.351Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/puspashree-pattnaik"
name: "Puspashree Pattnaik"
slug: "puspashree-pattnaik"
description: "Puspashree Pattnaik is an Indian educator, popular science author, activist and archivist. She is known for her contribution to the fields of science education, popular science, environmentalism, and archiving. Exploring Nature is a book by her. She co-founded nonprofit Srujanika that focuses on research and innovation in science, education, and development with an emphasis on the Odia language, along with her husband Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik. Pattnaik co-founded the children's educational initiative Integral Education Centre at Srujanika and co-edited the organization's magazine Bigyana Tarang. The Odisha Bigyan Academy awarded her the Pranakrushna Parija Popular Science Award for the book, Kahinki Bhai Kahinki in 1997."
tagline: "Indian Odia-language science author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Puspashree_Pattnaik_during_relicensing_Srujanika's_entire_publication_in_scanned_form_to_Odia_Wikisource_community_during_the_project's_1st_anniversary.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           34.14
  momentum:             15.8695652173913
  historical:           5.534233333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13774204/"
    handle:    "nm13774204"
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    title: "புஷ்பஸ்ரீ பட்நாயக்"
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    title: "Puspashree Pattnaik"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump