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Birbal Sahni

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Birbal Sahni FRS (14 November 1891 – 10 April 1949) was an Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent. [1]

36 relations: Anand Krishna, Azolla, Azolla primaeva, B. G. L. Swamy, Banaras Hindu University, Bhera, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Chester A. Arnold, Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, Flora of the Indian epic period, Hermenegild Santapau, Indian natural history, Indian Science Congress Association, Kailas Nath Kaul, Khewra Salt Mine, Lansium parasiticum, List of alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, List of Banaras Hindu University people, List of botanists by author abbreviation (S), List of father or mother of various fields in India, List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1936, List of Fellows of the Royal Society S, T, U, V, List of Indian scientists, List of Punjabi people, Mahadeva Subramania Mani, Manju Sharma (biologist), Nanotermes, Paleobotany, Panchanan Maheshwari, Parastylotermes, Prostylotermes, Ruchi Ram Sahni, Sahni, Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan, 1891 in India, 1949 in India.

Anand Krishna

Krishna Anand is an art historian and museologist who has helped in the restoration and chronicling of Indian art as well as creating a breed of professional art researchers.

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Azolla

Azolla (mosquito fern, duckweed fern, fairy moss, water fern) is a genus of seven species of aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae.

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Azolla primaeva

Azolla primaeva is an extinct species of "water fern" in the Azollaceae family known from Eocene fossils from the Ypresian stage, found in southern British Columbia.

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B. G. L. Swamy

Basavangudi Gundappa Lakshminarayana Swamy (1918–1980, also known as B. G. L. Swamy) was an Indian botanist and Kannada writer who was professor and head of the department of Botany and a principal of Presidency College, Chennai.

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Banaras Hindu University

Banaras Hindu University (Hindi:, BHU), formerly Central Hindu College, is a public central university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

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Bhera

Bhera (بھیرہ, Punjabi: بهيره) is a city and tehsil of Sargodha District, Punjab province of Pakistan.

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Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany

The Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany (acronym BSIP) is an autonomous institute constituted under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

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Chester A. Arnold

Chester Arthur Arnold was an American paleobotanist, born June 25, 1901 in Leeton, Missouri and died on 19 November 1977.

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Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia

Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia FRS (25 October 1883 – 15 June 1969) was a pioneering geologist in India and among the first Indian scientists to work in the Geological Survey of India.

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Flora of the Indian epic period

Flora of the Indian epic period can be a tool to study the antiquity of Indian epics as these do not record time scales of the incident mentioned in these.

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Hermenegild Santapau

Hermenegild Santapau (1903-1970) was a Spanish born naturalized Indian Jesuit priest and botanist, known for his taxonomical research on Indian flora.

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Indian natural history

Natural history in India has a long heritage with a recorded history going back to the Vedas.

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Indian Science Congress Association

Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) is a premier scientific organisation of India with headquarters at Kolkata, West Bengal.

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Kailas Nath Kaul

Kailas Nath Kaul (1905–1983) was an Indian botanist, naturalist, agricultural scientist, horticulturist, herbalist, plant collector and herpetologist, and a world authority on Arecaceae.

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Khewra Salt Mine

The Khewra Salt Mine (or Mayo Salt Mine) is located in Khewra, north of Pind Dadan Khan, an administrative subdivision of Jhelum District, Punjab Region, Pakistan, which rises from the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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Lansium parasiticum

Lansium parasiticum, also known as langsat or lanzones, is a species of tree in the Mahogany family.

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List of alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge

This is a list of alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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List of Banaras Hindu University people

The list of Banaras University people includes notable graduates, professors and administrators affiliated with Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi.

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List of botanists by author abbreviation (S)

To find entries for A–R, use the table of contents above.

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List of father or mother of various fields in India

The following is a list of significant men and women known for being the father, mother, or considered the founders.

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List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1936

Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1936.

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List of Fellows of the Royal Society S, T, U, V

About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society since its inception in 1660.

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List of Indian scientists

This is a list of noted scientists from India.

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List of Punjabi people

This is a list of notable Punjabis.

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Mahadeva Subramania Mani

Mahadeva Subramania Mani (மகாதேவா சுப்ரமணிய கரங்கள்; March 2, 1908 in Tanjore, Tamil Nadu - January 8, 2003 in Bangalore) was an Indian entomologist especially famous for his studies on high altitude entomology.

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Manju Sharma (biologist)

Manju Sharma (born 13 December 1940) is an Indian biotechnologist and administrator of several scientific research and policy-making bodies in India.

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Nanotermes

Nanotermes is an extinct genus of termites in the Isoptera family Termitidae known from only one Eocene fossil found in amber of the Cambay Basin (Gujarat, India).

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Paleobotany

Paleobotany, also spelled as palaeobotany (from the Greek words paleon.

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Panchanan Maheshwari

Panchanan Maheswari (9 November 1904 – 18 May 1966) was a prominent Indian botanist noted chiefly for his invention of the technique of test-tube fertilization of angiosperms.

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Parastylotermes

Parastylotermes is an extinct genus of termite in the Isoptera family Stylotermitidae known from North America, Europe, and India.

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Prostylotermes

Prostylotermes is an extinct genus of termite in the isopteran family Stylotermitidae known from two Eocene fossils found in India.

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Ruchi Ram Sahni

Ruchi Ram Sahni (5 April 1863 – 3 June 1948) was a Punjabi freedom fighter having a wide influence as an educationist and creator of scientific temper in the pre-partition Punjab.

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Sahni

Sahni or Sawhney or Sahney is a Hindu or Sikh surname from India.

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Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan

Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan (1913–2001) was an Indian plant pathologist, academic and the director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany of the University of Madras.

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1891 in India

Events in the year 1891 in India.

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1949 in India

Events in the year 1949 in India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birbal_Sahni

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