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Samarendra Kumar Mitra (14 March 1916 26 September 1998) was an Indian scientist and mathematician. He designed, developed and constructed, in 1953, India's first indigenous computer (an electronic analog computer) at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta (presently Kolkata).

Samarendra Kumar Mitra was the Founder of the Computing Machines and Electronics Division at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta[1] and was also the first to Head the Computing Machines and Electronics Laboratory at ISI, Calcutta.

About the Education
Samarendra Kumar Mitra was born on 14 March 1916, in Calcutta (presently Kolkata)

Samarendra Kumar Mitra studied at the Bowbazar High School, Calcutta, and completed his Matriculation in 1st Division in 1931. In 1933,

he did his Intermediate in Science (I.Sc.) in 1st Division from Presidency College (presently Presidency University), Calcutta (now Kolkata).

In 1935, he did his Bachelor in Science with Honours (B.Sc. Hons) in Chemistry, with 2nd rank, from Presidency College (presently Presidency University), Calcutta (now Kolkata) and was awarded the Cunningham Memorial Prize in Chemistry.

In 1937, he completed his Master in Science (M.Sc.) Chemistry and in 1940 his Master in Science (M.Sc.) in Applied Mathematics from the University College of Science, University of Calcutta,

About the Career

He worked as a Research Physicist, under the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research(CSIR,India) scheme on the design and development of Air-Driven Ultracentrifuge, at the Palit Laboratory of Physics, University of Calcutta, 1944 1948. In 1946 he designed and constructed a Vacuum Type Air Driven Ultracentrifuge.

He was awarded an UNESCO Special Fellowship on the study of High Speed Computing Machines in the United States of America and the United Kingdom during 1949 50 and worked at Harvard University

, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA and at the Mathematical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, U.K.

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