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Place of Birth: Odisha, India
About Prafulla Kumar Jena
- Prafulla Kumar Jena is an Indian metallurgist and a former director of the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (formerly Regional Research Laboratory) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Bhubaneshwar.
- He previously held the TATA Chair for the Distinguished Professor of Metallurgical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
- The Government of India honoured him with a Padma Shri in 1977.
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