Background
Panchanan Maheshwari was born on November 9, 1904 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Panchanan Maheshwari was born on November 9, 1904 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Maheswari was educated at Ewing Christian College in Allahabad, intending to pursue a career in medicine. At Ewing, he came under the mentorship of Winfield Dudgeon, and changed his studies from medicine to science. He received Bachelor of Science (1925), Master of Science (1931), and Doctor of Science (1931) degrees, all under Dudgeon's influence.
Panchanan Maheshwari was an educator and publisher. He taught Botany at the University of Delhi, establishing that department as a globally important center of research in embryology and tissue culture.
Maheshwari founded the scientific journal Phytomorphology,[citation needed] for which he served as chief editor until his death in 1966; and the more popular magazine Botanica. He also published texts to improve the standard of teaching life sciences in the schools. In 1951, he founded the International Society of Plant Morphologists.
(Reprinted From The Journal Of The Indian Botanical Society.)
1931(Volume 67 - Phylogeny Of Monocotyledons)
2001Panchanan Maheshwari was a scientific citizen of the world and many academies felt honoured to make him a Foundation Fellow. In 1934 he became a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. He was the General President-elect of the Indian Science Congress Association for 1968, a role he could not fulfil on account of his untimely death on 18 May 1966. Maheshwari was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1965, he was second Indian Botanist to receive this accolade.
National Institute of Sciences of India , India
1956 - 1960
lndian Botanical Society , India
American Academy of Arts & Sciences , United States
American Botanical Society , United States
Indian Academy of Sciences , Bangalore
1934
Royal Society
1965
International Society of Plant Morphologists
1950 - 1960
Indian Science Congress Association