dear friends
You may recall that we sent out the following message on 19th September in this group about the great achievement of Dr S B Misra, who has made every Indian proud. We were looking for contact details.
On seeing this mail through google search, Dr Misra's son Mr Neelsh from delhi contacted me and furnished the contact details. Mr Neelesh has also become the member of the group.
Dr Misra and his wife are now at Lucknow involving themselves in educating the poor village children. I could contact him over phone today morning and conveyed him our heartfelt congratulations and greetings on behalf of the group. With his permission, i have added him to our group.
His simplicity and humble way of accepting such a great International honour impressed me very much. I will be recording his podcast interview on the coming sunday over phone for the benefit of youngsters.
Dr Misra Sab : We all welcome you to this group. We salute you for the International honour given to you by Canadian Government. As a fellow Indian, we are proud of you, Sir.
Srinivasan
Moderator
--- In India_Vision_2020@yahoogroups , "Prime Point Srinivasan".com
<prpoint@...> wrote:
dear friends
Please read the following story that has appeared in The Hindu. An Indian
Geologist Mr Misra has been honoured by Canada Government.
If any of our members could locate Mr Misra, please inform me. We
can also
organise an interview with him for our next ezine Vandemataram
Let us all join together to congratulate Mr Misra
srinivasan
Moderator*
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/ holnus/001200709 181142.htm
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565-mn-yr-old fossil named after Indian geologist*
Toronto, Sept. 18 (PTI): A retired Indian geologist who made an
internationally renowned discovery in the 1960s in Canada, then gave
up his
North American career to build a village school in India, has received a
rare honour -- a 565-million- year- old fossil has been named after him.
Canadian government ministers, bureaucrats and scientists attended a
recent
meeting in Canada's Portugal Cove South city where two top geologists
-- Guy
Narbonne from Canada and Jim Gehling from Australia -- announced the new
name of one of the many fossils discovered by Dr S B Misra in the late
1960s. Misra's discovery, the oldest record of multicellular life on
earth,
shall now be called Fractofusus misrai.
Mistaken Point, the site of Misra's discovery, has since been declared a
protected area by the government of Canada and no damage to the rocks and
fossils is allowed any more. Geo-scientists from Canada are making all
efforts to get the site declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
At the ceremony, Narbonne read out an e-mail sent by him to Misra which
said, "Your name appears as the discoverer of the Mistaken Point
fossils...(it) will be seen by thousands of people every summer."
Narbonne wrote from the Queen's University at Ontario, Canada, "You should
feel quite pleased at the huge role you played in discovering this
world-famous fossil site."
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