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M. J. Narasimhan
Mandayam Jeersannidhi Narasimhan (1 July 1891 – 24 September 1970) was a pioneering Indian plant pathologist and mycologist who worked in the state of Mysore. Narasimhan was born in Madras in a family of scholars, with a grandfather who had collaborated with Max Müller. Narasimhan went to the Presidency College, Chennai, Madras Presidency College, studying botany under Philip Furley Fyson, P.F. Fyson, and was also influenced by his cousin M. O. P. Iyengar, M.O.P. Iyengar. He joined as an assistant mycologist under Leslie Coleman in 1913 in Mysore. He was involved in the studies of ''koleroga'' of arecanut. He also studied ''Hemileia vastatrix'' and its control in coffee. He retired in 1946 as director of agriculture in Mysore. A son, M. J. Thirumalachar, M.J. Thirumalachar also took to mycology and along with him he studied ''Sclerospora'' mildews and described the new genus ''Sclerophthora''. The genera ''Narasimhania'' (Doassansiales) and ''Narasimhella'' (Gymnoascaceae) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M J Narasimhan
M, or m, is the thirteenth Letter (alphabet), letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''em'' (pronounced ), plural ''ems''. History The letter M is derived from the Phoenician alphabet, Phoenician Mem, via the Greek alphabet, Greek Mu (letter), Mu (Μ, μ). Semitic alphabets, Semitic Mem is most likely derived from a "Proto-Sinaitic script, Proto-Sinaitic" (Bronze Age) adoption of the N-water ripple (n hieroglyph), "water" ideogram in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian writing. The Egyptian sign had the acrophonic value , from the Egyptian word for "water", ''nt''; the adoption as the Semitic letter for was presumably also on acrophonic grounds, from the Semitic languages, Semitic word for "water", '':wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/maʾ-, *mā(y)-''. Use in writing systems The letter represents the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
