Shiv Raj Kumar Chopra earned his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in 1955. His significant contributions are studying human growth, primate locomotion, and paleoanthropology. His work on primates helped clarify the phylogenetic relationships between higher and lower primates. He documented the crucial stages in the evolutionary tree of early human beings. He designed a pelvimeter, an instrument for measuring angles in primates' pelvis and other bones, including humans. He was a member of the Permanent Council of the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences; the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad; the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; the Zoological Society of London; the American Anthropological Association, and the International Primatological Society.

Sachi Prasad Ray-Chaudhuri received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, the UK, in 1940. He has done pioneering work teaching and researching animal genetics and cytogenetics. He studied the fundamental cytogenetical problems using the chromosomes of the germ cells of animals both under normal conditions and after physical and chemical treatments. He was the head of the Department of Zoology at the Banaras Hindu University from 1960, and his skills resulted in this department becoming a model for Zoology Departments in the country. Dr. Raychaudhuri was conferred with Sunder Lal Hora Medal by INSA in 1987.

01-05 November, 2022

At New York, USA.