Bagepalli Ramachandrachar Seshachar (9 January 1908 – 25 January 1994) was a renowned zoologist and the President of
Indian National Science Academy
The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is a national academy in New Delhi for Indian scientists in all branches of science and technology.
In August 2019, Dr. Chandrima Shaha was appointed as the president of Indian National Science Academ ...
from 1971–72.
He joined the University of Mysore in 1926 as a demonstrator in Zoology and was a tenured professor until his retirement in 1960.
Post-retirement, he was invited by
V. K. R. Varadaraja Rao, the then vice-chancellor of
Delhi University
Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...
, to head the Zoology department
where he served until 1971.
and
Gegeneophis seshachari are named after him and the etymology noted his pioneering studies concerning the
cytogenetics
Cytogenetics is essentially a branch of genetics, but is also a part of cell biology/cytology (a subdivision of human anatomy), that is concerned with how the chromosomes relate to cell behaviour, particularly to their behaviour during mitosis an ...
, reproductive biology, and natural history of Indian
caecilians.
References
20th-century Indian zoologists
1908 births
1994 deaths
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