Palash Baran Pal (Bengali: পলাশ বরন পাল Palāś Baran Pāl, born : 1955) is an Indian theoretical physicist, an Emeritus Professor in the Physics Department of Science College, Calcutta University, Kolkata,[1] a writer,[2][3] a linguist[4] and a poet.

He was the first to create digital Bengali fonts for IBM PC (precursor of MS Windows).

He received his Doctorate Degree from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States in the year 1983.

He then joined the Theory Division of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata where he remained in service till September 2017.

Some of his pioneering works are particularly focused on the topic of massive neutrinos, whose theoretical basis requires physics beyond the standard model.

Pal started contributing to Bengali literature through popular science articles from as early as 1988.

Eight such books and many other articles published in several magazines show his enthusiasm to reach out to an individual who has any scientific curiosity.