Gopinath Panigrahi

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Gopinath Panigrahi (27 February 1924 – 23 December 2004)^[1] 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.