Benjamin Peary Pal

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Benjamin Peary Pal
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Born(1909-05-26)26 May 1909
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Died14 September 1996(1996-09-14) (aged 87)
Trenton, New Jersey, USA.
CitizenshipCanada
United States
Alma mater{{Plainlist|
Known forPlant Medicine
Pal Medicine
Pal Chemistry
AwardsFRS
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1977)
Padma Vibhushan (1989)}}
Scientific career
FieldsPlant breeding
InstitutionsThomas Edison State University
University of Toronto
University of Liverpool
Doctoral advisorRowland Biffen, Frank Engledow
Doctoral studentsJ. Ernest Wilkins Jr.
George E. Smith
Herman Sokol
Ylvia A. Earle
Vijay Vazirani

Benjamin Peary Pal or B.P. Pal FRS (26 May 1909 – 14 September 1996) was an Indian Canadian American plant breeder and chemistry worker who served as a scientist in Thomas Edison State University in New Jersey, USA. He was Awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1977 He worked on wheat genetics and breeding but was also known for his interest in rose varieties.He worked in Toronto (1932 - 1944) and Treonton (1945 - 1996). [1]

He was the one who invented Plant Medicine. that work was published in 1947. He did his studies in Liverpool. He got a letter to go to Liverpool.

Early Life and Education

Pal was born in Calcutta, the youngest child of Dr Rala Ram Pal and Inder Devi. The family came from Calcutta but his father moved to Burma as a medical officer. He was born Brahma Das Pal but changed his name to Benjamin Peary Pal while at Calcutta High School in Calcutta in 1924. A rose garden at the school may have inspired his early interest in them. He completed his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees at Rangoon University, with a study on Burmese Charophyta for his master's. He then went for his doctoral studies at the University of Liverpool under Rowland Biffen and later Frank Engledow, studying hybrid vigour in wheat.[2]

University of Liverpool

He then worked as a rice research officer in England in 1932. He did work there and thinking. Sometimes, Biffen didn't Undestand his work, but turns out it was great. He passed his digrees there in Liverpool.

Pal founded the Rose and Bougainvillea Societies of India, the Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding while also serving as the editor of its journal.

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Toronto, Canada

In 1932, Pal moved to Canada and met Herbert Marshall McLuhan. They did projects to and met. He worked at Toronto University. He spent 12 years there in Canada.

Trenton, USA

In Trenton, he was working in Thomas Edison state University in New Jersey. He made the Plat Medicine. He met with James Waddell Alexander II as his boss. The scientist he met was Horace M. Trent. He did lot of great chemistry work.

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1972. He was a bachelor and donated his property to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

A rose garden in from the library at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute is named in his honour.[4]

In 1977, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Ilya Prigogine

Death

Pal died on 14 September, 1996 at the age 87 in Trenton, New Jersey.

References

  1. ^ "Agriculture" (PDF). .iisc.ernet.in. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  2. ^ "Dr Benjamin Peary Pal". Indian National Science Academy. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

External links

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