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<h1 class="text-primary text-center headx"><b> MS Swaminathan</b></h1>
<h1 class="text-center text-like"><i> Father of Green Revolution in India</i></h1>
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<div class="thumbnail"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/careerguide/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Dr-M-S-Swaminathan.jpg">
<h5>source:https://www.careerguide.com/blog/dr-m-s-swaminathan-inspirational-career-story</h5>
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<div class="well lftbck">Notable Awards
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<li>Padma Shri (1967)</li>
<li>Ramon Magsaysay (1971)</li>
<li>Padma Bhushan (1972)</li>
<li>Albert Einstein World Award of Science (1986)</li>
<li>Padma Vibhushan (1989)</li>
<li>World Food Prize (1987)</li>
<li>Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1991)</li>
<li>Volvo Environment Prize (1999)</li>
<li>Indira Gandhi Peace Prize(1999)</li>
<li>Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration (2013)</li>
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<h2 class="timel text-center"><b> Important Aspects of Swaminathan's life</b><h2>
<h3> Early life </h3>
<li> <bullet>born in Kumbakonam on 7 August 1925</bullet></li>
<li>He got matriculated at age 15</li>
<li>Bachelors degree in zoology, at Maharajas College in Trivandrum, Kerala</li>
<h3>Career</h3>
<li><bullets>In 1947 (IARI), studied genetics and plant breeding.</li>
<li>In 1949 obtained a post-graduate degree with high distinction in Cytogenetics </li>
<li> On UNESCO fellowship started research at Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands</li>
<li>In 1950, he moved to study at the Plant Breeding Institute of the University of Cambridge</li>
<li>He declined the offer of a full-time faculty position at University of Wisconsin, returning to India in early 1954</li>
<h3>Professional achievements</h3>
<li><bullets>1949–55 – Research on potato (Solanum tuberosum), wheat (Triticum aestivum), rice (Oryza sativa), and jute genetics.</bullets></li>
<li>1979–80 – Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India</li>
<li>1988–99 – Chairman/Trustee, Commonwealth Secretariat Expert Group</li>
<li>1990–93 – Founder/President, International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems (ISME)</li>
<li>1994 – Chairman of the Commission on Genetic Diversity of the World Humanity Action Trust</li>
<li>2004 – 2014 – Chairman, National Commission on Farmers.</li>
<li>Over 68 students have done their PhD thesis work under his guidance.</li>
<div> <blockquote> <p>"he is a sociological phenomenon. He is paradigm, exemplar, dissenter, critic and alternative. .....Swaminathan always assimilates the new"</p></blockquote></div>
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<cite>-Shiv Vishwanathan in an EPW</cite>
<p class="timel"><i> If you have time, you should read more about this incredible human being on his</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._S._Swaminathan">wikipedia entry</a></p>
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