Prof. D. Guptasarma
Director
Geoglogy and Earth Science
CSIR
India
Biography
Dharmajit Guptasarma was born on 16 July, 1932, in Serajgunj, Dt. Pabna (now in Bangladesh). He obtained BSc with Physics Honours in 1950, and MSc in Radiophysics & Electronics in 1952, from Calcutta University, securing first rank in the university in both. He was awarded a Scientific Manpower Committee research fellowship of the Govt. of India, and worked as a research scholar for about 2 years under Prof Arun K. Chaudhury at the Inst. of Radiophysics & Electronics (RPE), and was then appointed a lecturer at the RPE without completing a PhD. He worked in the Geological Survey of India (GSI), Calcutta, from 1956 to 1965, and then joined the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Hyderabad, under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), from where he retired as Director in June 1992.
Research Interest
Geoglogy and Earth Science
