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Harmohinder Singh Gill was of the Sikh faith born on April 7, 1933, in
Ferozpur, Punjab, India, and raised in a small village in Sri Amritsar, Punjab, India, about five miles from the General's castle. He was the son of late Sadar Rajpal Singh Gill and Sardarni Sukhwant Kaur Gill. Gill was the eldest
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of Punjab, India. Because the
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and serological techniques, which pioneered the fungi classifications in the field Plant
Pathology. Gill taught his techniques to graduate students at the university and contributed articles in the Press Enterprise (a newspaper in
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born or raised and educated in the US, all received advanced degrees: Tajinder (Pharm. D., Clinical
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Identification of Phytophthora by disc electrophoresis. (1977). Gill H.S. & G.A. Zentmeyer.
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Studies of powdery mildews from India-III. (1968). Gill H.S.
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