Remembering Someshwar Nath Bhargava (1937-1983): A great human being and an outstanding plant pathologist / mycologist from Allahabad University, Prayagraj Pandey Ravi Shankar1,*, Kaur Harbans Kehri2,**, Prasad Raghuveer Raj3,***, Govindjee Govindjee4,**** 15/246, Gomtinagar Extension, Lucknow-226010, Uttar Pradesh, India 2Department of Botany, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj-211002, Uttar Pradesh, India 3Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, Canada 4Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL61801, USA (*Corresponding author) email id: drravipcs@gmail.com
**kehrihk@rediffmail.com
***arailprasad@gmail.com
****gov@life.illinois.edu
Online published on 11 November, 2023. Abstract We present here the life and research of Someshwar Nath Bhargava who made enormous contributions as a wonderful teacher and an original researcher in the area of fungal diseases of plants. He was trained both at Allahabad University in India, and at Cambridge University in U.K. First, Govindjee presents here, on behalf of all the authors, a brief description of Someshwar Bhargava's personal life and an overview of his research in the 1960s and in the 1970s. This is followed by a detailed reminiscence of all aspects of Someshwar's life, particularly in the 1980s, by his former doctoral student Ravi Shankar Pandey. Then, we present a reminiscence by Raj Prasad, who knew him from his own early days in Allahabad, followed by reminiscences from Someshwar's sister Ranjana Bhargava and brother Rameshwar Bhargava. We end this Tributea to S.N. Bhargava with concluding remarks related to the students he had trained, and his publications under References, the latter, as collected and organized by Harbans Kehri Kaur. Top Keywords Allahabad university, Great Human, Mycologist, Plant pathologist. Top |