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Place of Birth: Rajasthan, India
About H. P. Gandhi
- Hemendrakumar Prithivraj Gandhi (born 20 August 1920, Pratapgarh, Rajasthan; died 5 June 2008) was a pioneering Indian phycologist and diatomist.
- H P Gandhi did his primary and higher secondary schooling at Pratapgarh and obtained his intermediate degree from Agra .
- Later, he completed his Bachelors and Masters in Botany from the Wilson College, Mumbai in 1949, where he specialized in algae under the supervision of leading phycologist Prof.
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- Ella Gonzales. Gandhi joined as an assistant lecturer at Karnatak University (earlier known as Karnatak College), Dharwar in July 1949 and very soon he was transferred unceremoniously to M N College, Visnagar in Gujarat (August 1949), then to I Y College, Bombay (November 1949), and after another short time period he joined Rajaram College, Kolhapur after which he finally returned to Karnatak College (June 1951).
- With the bifurcation of Bombay Presidency, in 1956, Gandhi was again transferred to Gujarat .
- His keen interest in the subject made him to collect algal samples from all the possible places and habitats during these transfers, tours and botanical excursions.
- He retired, in the year 1980, from J.J.
- Science College, Gujarat from the office of Principal
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