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  Sukumar Ray(1887 - 1923)

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Sukumar Ray was born on October 30, 1887 in the illustrious Raychaudhuri family of Calcutta. His father Upendrakisor was an author of children's literature, a musician, artist, and a pioneer of printing technology, the founder of the U.Ray and Sons, a printing press. Sukumar grew in the enlightened environment of the Brahma Samaj and the questioning spirit of the family among whose friends were Rabindranath Tagore, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, and Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose.

Sukumar graduated with double honours in Physics and Chemistry from the Presidency College in 1906. In many ways his interests followed his father's.

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In 1911 he went to England to study printing technology. He did technical work of exceptional quality first in London and later in Manchester, publishing many papers in reputed journals. (Upendrakisor had published from Calcutta some technical articles in some of the same journals.) Sukumar also developed an active and se