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Ratan Shankar Mishra

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where mathematicians from India and abroad like Jack P. Tull moderated the proceedings. It is also reported that the department of mathematics had the highest number of faculty members during his tenure as its head. Apart from several articles, he is the author of twelve text books and a report for
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Mishra was also active in academic circles and held the presidency of the Gorakhpur University Teachers' Association in 1958 and was the hostel warden during his tenure there. While working for the Lucknow University, he was the president of the Teachers' Association (1975) and the Alumni
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for a short term and took up the post of the vice chancellor of Lucknow University in 1982. In 1985, he resigned from the post to associate himself with Tensor, the University International Maths Journal, published from Japan. He also served as a visiting professor at
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Several academic and administrative reforms have been credited to Mishra during his tenure at the University of Allahabad. He guided several mathematicians for their PhD, DSc and DPhil research and introduced many new subjects such as Modern Algebra,
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as a selection grade professor and headed the maths and statistics department. In 1973, he became the Chief Proctor of the university and in 1975 became the dean to finally retire in 1978. After retirement, he worked as a visiting professor at
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and secured a doctoral degree (PhD) in 1947, the first PhD awarded by the university in Mathematics. His Doctor of Science degree (DSc) came from Lucknow University in 1952, again the first DSc degree awarded by Lucknow University.
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Mishra specialised in differential geometry, relativity and fluid mechanics and his contributions to these fields have been documented. He was known to have elucidated the complete solutions to the unified field theory of
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at the graduate level, the first time in India the subject was taught at the graduate level. He was also instrumental in conducting conferences and seminars, with financial assistance from the
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in 1971. Indian Mathematical Society placed the Distinguished Service Award on him in 1982 and the Jawaharlal Nehru Rashtriya Yuwa Kendra selected him for the
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in their mathematical science research committee. He also chaired the All India panel for writing text books in mathematics and sat on the committee of
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as its council member, as the president of the Physical Sciences section (1965-1966) and as its vice president (1969-1979). He was the president of the
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to R. S. Mishra, by way of a note left on his death bed and Mishra completed the problem, text of which runs into about 100 pages.
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Association. He was the president of the National Academy of Mathematics, Gorakhpur and was a founder member of the
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in 1994. On 5 May 1995, Banares Hindu University honoured him as the chief guest of their Teachers' Day functions.
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Mishra had already started his career while doing his doctoral research by joining the faculty of Mathematics at
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and Statistics & Probability into curriculum. Under his guidance, the university introduced a course in
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and moved to Lucknow University where he worked till 1954. That year, he was appointed as the reader at the
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to head the department of mathematics there. He was promoted as the dean in 1965 and in 1968, he joined
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invited him to head the department of Mathematics in 1958, he accepted the offer and shifted to the
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He received the Banerjee Prize from Lucknow University in 1952 for the best research work. The
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Ratan Shankar Mishra was an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA),
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from 1968 to 1970. He was a member of the board of directors of the
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from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the executive council of the
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Ratan Shankar Mishra died on 23 August 1999, at the age of 80.
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International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation
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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
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Mishra's efforts were behind the establishment of the
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National Council of Educational Research and Training
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G. P. Pokhariyal; R. S. Mishra (28 September 1970).
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G. P. Pokhariyal; R. S. Mishra (28 September 1970).
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after which he passed BSc with honours and MSc from
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Ratan Shankar Mishra was born on 15 October 1918 at
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Indian National Science Academy. 2024. 192: 1143:Academic staff of University of Windsor 518: 274:(1967, 1972) and had associations with 778: 1083:Mishra, R. S.; Pandey, S. B. (1976). 958:. Society for Scientific Values. 2015 870:Mishra, R. S.; Pandey, S. B. (1976). 607:from the original on 30 November 2022 7: 368:and the nominating committee of the 155:(1965-1968). He was honoured by the 439:awarded him the civilian honour of 354:National Academy of Sciences, India 334:Indian Science Congress Association 1168:20th-century Indian mathematicians 1133:Academic staff of Delhi University 825:. Indian Academy of Sciences. 2015 635:. Padma Shri. 2015. Archived from 572:from the original on 3 August 2023 238:Delhi College of Arts and Commerce 14: 499: 485: 956:"Society for Scientific Values" 362:Indian National Science Academy 298:. He also wrote structures for 147:(1954-1958) and as the dean at 224:. 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Index

Ajgain
Unnao district
Uttar Pradesh
Padma Shri
IMS
Teachers' Day
Albert Einstein
University of Gorakhpur
University of Allahabad
Lucknow University
University of Delhi
Banares Hindu University
Varanasi
Government of India
Padma Shri

Lucknow University

University of Allahabad

BHU
Ajgaon
Unnao district
Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
Lucknow University
Delhi University
Ramjas College
Delhi College of Arts and Commerce
University of Delhi

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