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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. He also took an interest in geology and archaeology . He founded what is now the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany at Lucknow in 1946.
Feb 23, 2024 · Professor Birbal Sahni, FRS, and a great visionary, established the Institute as Institute of Palaeobotany in the year 1946... Read More
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).
Birbal Sahni was an Indian palaeobotanist who founded the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow. This biography of Birbal Sahni provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.
The Birbal Sahni institution of Palaeosciences (BSIP), formerly known as the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, is an autonomous institution established by the Government of India under the Department of Science and Technology.
Birbal was the third child of his parents, the late Prof. Ruchi Ram Sahni and Shrimati Ishwar Devi. He was born on the 14th of November 1891, at Bhera, a small town in the Shahpur district, now a part of the West Punjab, and once a flourishing centre of trade, which had the distinction of an invasion by the iconoclast, Mahmud of Ghazni.
Founder of Palaceobotanical Research in India. 1887-1961. “Through the span of a century, men have arisen now an again who, by their ability, their dint of application and inspiration, have shifted facts of science amidst a maze of confusing evidence, and who have thus left an indelible impression upon the sands of time.
Professor Birbal Sahni, FRS, and a great visionary, established the Institute as Institute of Palaeobotany in the year 1946 to establish palaeobotany as a science in itself.
Professor Birbal Sahni was born on the 14th November 1891, at Bhera, Shahpur District, West Punjab, adjacent to the Salt Range, the stratigraphy and tectonics of which have attracted the attention of eminent geologists
Birbal Sahni - Story of a (1891- The Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleobotany at Lucknow, founded in 1949, stands as a monu- ment testimony to its founder Professor Birbal Sahni. In his welcome speech requesting Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to lay the foundation stone of the institute, Sahni said, "For what is it, after all,
