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Place of Birth: Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
About Shambhu Dayal Sinvhal
- Shambhu Dayal Sinvhal (20 November 1923 - 27 May 2015) was an Indian mathematician, astronomist and a former vice chancellor of Kumaon University.
- Born on 20 November 1923 at Indore in the largest Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to B.
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- Sinvhal and Tara Devi, he started his career as a member of the faculty of the department of mathematics and astronomy at Lucknow University in 1946 where he worked till 1954.
- During this period, he secured a doctoral degree (PhD) in mathematics from Lucknow in 1951.
- In 1954, he resigned from the university to take up the post of an assistant astronomer at Uttar Pradesh State Observatory and became its director in 1960, a post he held till his superannuation 1978.
- He also worked as a professor at the University of Rourkee at the department of Earth Sciences.
- In 1978, he was appointed as the vice chancellor of Kumaon University.Sinvhal was the president of Bharat Ganita Parishad and a member of International Astronomical Union, London.
- He served Astronomical Society of India as a member of its executive council (1973–74), as its vice president (1975–76), as its president (1977-79) and was its life member.
- He was a life member of the National Academy of Sciences, India and a member of the American Mathematical Society.
- He chaired the Uttar Pradesh Higher Education Service Commission set up by the state government and held memberships in the Instruments Society of India and the Optical Society of India.
- He was a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, London.
- The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri in 1975.
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