| Names |
BEDABRATA PAIN |
| Date of
Birth |
March 27, 1963 |
| Identity |
Indian scientist
turned film director, producer and screenwriter. |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1990s: He along with his
four friends invented the active pixel sensor technology
that produced the world's smallest camera and has been
inducted to the US Space Technology Hall of Fame. Now it is
used from cell-phone cameras to movie cameras (such as those
used by RED) to those in space telescopes.
- December 2008: He worked
for NASA for 15 years as senior research scientist before
quitting NASA in December 2008.
- 2005: He was the executive
producer of the award-winning film Amu.
- 2012: He shot the film
Chittagong with the same digital imaging technology that he
with other NASA scientists had invented.
|
| General |
- He was also a member of the team that invented the CMOS
image sensor.
- Bedabrata Pain has also won National Film Award for Best
First Film of a Director for Chittagong.
- He has 87 invention patents to his credit.
- He was the principal researcher for the documentary
called Lifting the Veil on the impact of globalisation in
India, and the writer of the book titled ‘Behind the events
in Kashmir’.
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