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- Shani Bhagwan (also known as Sani, Shani Dev, Sani Maharaj, and Chayyaputra) is one of the most popular deities in the traditional religion of Hinduism. Shani is the harbinger of bad luck and retribution, and practicing Hindus pray to Shani to ward off evil and remove personal obstacles.
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Birbal Sahni FRS [1] (14 November 1891 – 10 April 1949) was an Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent. He also took an interest in geology and archaeology . He founded what is now the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany at Lucknow in 1946.
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On November 14, 1891, he was born in Bhera, a West Punjab town now part of Pakistan. He was the family’s third child, and Lala Ruchi Ram Sahni, his father, was a science teacher at Lahore Government College. He breezed through the Punjab University’s examination and graduated in natural science from the Government College in Lahore in 1911. Around ...
On his return to India in 1919, Birbal Sahni was appointed as a natural science teacher at Banaras Hindu University. After a year of teaching natural science at the university, he relocated to Lahore and taught plant science at Punjab University from 1920 to 1921. He arrived in Lucknow in 1921 to teach at Lucknow University. In 1933, he was promote...
In 1936, he was named an individual of the Royal Society of London, the most prestigious scientific distinction in the United Kingdom. He was the fifth Indian researcher to get the award and the first botanist. He received the Barelay Medal for scientific exploration and the C.R. Reddy National Prize for work in fundamental sciences around the same...
Birbal Sahni, an Indian palaeobotanist was the forefather of palaeobotanical studies in India, was a visionary and a dreamer. He was a scientist, a scholar, and a devout follower of God. His contributions to the development of Indian Paleobotany will never be matched by any award, institution, or book named after him. His greatness in this field wi...
Birbal Sahni the founder of palaeobotanical research in India was a dreamer and a great visionary. He was born on 14th November 1891 at Behra, a small town in Shahpur District (now a part of west Punjab in Pakistan). He was third child of his parents, Mr. Ruchi Ram Sahni and Mrs. Ishar Devi.
Whatever the actual taxonomic position of the Indian stem may be, Sahni made important contributions to the study of a much-discussed phylogenetical problem by his exact account of the anatomical structure, by his comparative studies, and by inspiring cbntinued work on the homoxylous woods.
3 days ago · Birbal Sahni was born into an intellectually stimulating environment in Bhera, Shahpur District, currently part of Pakistan’s Punjab region, on November 14, 1891. He was the third offspring of Ishwar Devi and renowned Indian meteorologist Lala Ruchi Ram Sahni.
Rich collections of plant fossils and literature donated by Professor Sahni, and a small amount of private funds, mainly contributed by the Sahni's and the Burmah Oil Company were the only initial assests of the Institute.
The Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany commemorates the name of its reverend founder, Professor Birbal Sahni, one of the great sons of modern India. In September 1939 a committee of palaeobotanists working in India was formed, with Professor Sahni as Convener, to coordinate palaeobotanical researches and to publish periodical reports.
