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About Gopinath Panigrahi
- Gopinath Panigrahi (27 February 1924 – 23 December 2004) is a botanist and plant taxonomist.
- He was born in the village Baikunthapur, Basudebpur block, Bhadrak district, Orissa, India and obtained a Ph.D.
- in 1954 from the University of Leeds where he studied Cytogenetics. He married his late first wife, Shantilata Panigrahi (née, Sabat) in June, 1948.
- She was an accomplished amateur dancer in Kathakali-Odissi systems of dancing, and a Government of Orissa scholar at Shantiniketan.
- They had four children (two sons and two daughters).
- His second wife, 'Sarojini G.
- Panigrahi (née, Tara Waman Kelkar of Pune) died when he was seventy.
- She had received a M.Phil degree from Reading University and was a poet in Marathi literature.
- His first son, Devananda, was a poultry scientist and died on 23 December 2004.
- His eldest daughter, Meera, is a retired Senior Lecturer in English Literature under the Government of Orissa.
- His second daughter, Smt.
- Soumya Panda, is a teacher.
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