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Shiva Balak Misra is an Indian geologist, writer and social worker from Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh in India and is known for his contribution to the knowledge of earliest life forms on earth.
Sep 7, 2022 · Dr Shiva Balak Misra was only in his early 30s when he made the groundbreaking discovery of a type of fossil that is among the oldest life forms known to exist on earth. At the time, he was a student at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, pursuing his MSc.
Dec 8, 2021 · A successful scientist in Canada, Shiva Balak Misra made his life’s mission to make education accessible to children in his village Kunaura in Uttar Pradesh, thus starting the Bharatiya Gramin Vidyalaya. By Himanshu Nitnaware. December 8, 2021.
Oct 5, 2007 · Shiva Balak Misra was a graduate student at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada, when he discovered the 565-million-year-old fossils of soft-bodied organisms shaped like leaves and spindles. Misra published his findings in the Geological Society of America Bulletin but returned to his native village in north India in 1971 to build a school.
Oct 16, 2019 · The fossils at Mistaken Point were discovered in June 1967 by Shiva Balak Misra of India and his field assistant Paul Thompson. The two scholars were mapping Precambrian-era rocks as part of Misra’s master’s thesis for Newfoundland’s Memorial University .
May 31, 2024 · In June 1967, Shiva Balak Misra, an Indian graduate student of Memorial University of Newfoundland discovered the first fossil at the place, the Fractofusus Misrai. The place gained prominence in the 1980s as having North America’s oldest metazoan fossils, and the world’s oldest deep-water marine fossils.
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Nov 9, 2022 · For Dr Shiv Balak Misra, a noted geologist from Deora village in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district, the year 1967 was a turning point. It was a milestone that not only marked the zenith of his career as a scientist but also the year when he decided to return to his roots and pursue a dream — to set up a school in his village.
