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In Memoriam Prof. Arun Kumar Sharma (1924-2017)


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1 Botany Department, Calcutta University, India
2 Botanical Survey of India, India
 

Padma Bhushan Professor Arun Kumar Sharma, one of the doyens of botany in general and cytogenetics and cytotaxonomy in particular, died on 6th July 2017, Thursday at an age of 92. He made a benchmark both at national and international level. His fame reached the zenith of success through his hard work but his success kept him humble as a human. Besides his own research activities on various domains of botany, he has significantly contributed to the policy, planning and formulation of scientific and technical programmes for the growth of science in India.
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D. Maity
Botany Department, Calcutta University, India
P. Singh
Botanical Survey of India, India

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Padma Bhushan Professor Arun Kumar Sharma, one of the doyens of botany in general and cytogenetics and cytotaxonomy in particular, died on 6th July 2017, Thursday at an age of 92. He made a benchmark both at national and international level. His fame reached the zenith of success through his hard work but his success kept him humble as a human. Besides his own research activities on various domains of botany, he has significantly contributed to the policy, planning and formulation of scientific and technical programmes for the growth of science in India.