 | We are sad to announce the demise of our beloved professor in Applied Physics dept., Prof. Rama N. Singh at Varanasi on April 23, 2007. Being an extremely talented person, he won many awards and held many important posts, including Director of IT-BHU. He wrote many papers about space science and technology in leading national and international Journals.
Below please find the obituary written by B.N. Dwivedi of Applied Physics dept. and one-time student of Prof. Singh. A copy of the obituary is also sent to Current Science Magazine (published jointly by Current Science Association and Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore) http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/ , which has published a number of research papers by Prof. Singh. Prof. R. N. Singh was the counselor representing IT-BHU during the IIT-JEE interview at IIT-Bombay campus in 1972. IT-BHU joined with IITs in 1972 to admit students through IIT-JEE. A batch of about 300 students joined our college that year, and about 1/3 rd were from Bombay. Like me, many of my batch-mates credit Prof. Singh and his charming personality to convince us to join our college. With the death of Prof. Singh, our nation has lost a great physicist and a great space-scientist. Our college has also lost a renowned professor and an able administrator. |
He is survived by wife, two sons and three daughters. Among the sons, Prof. Ramesh P. Singh (E-mail: rpalka425[AT]gmail.com) is a Professor in Civil Engg. Dept., IIT-Kanpur; and Prof. Ravi P. Singh (Email: singh_ravi_p[AT]rediffmail.com) is Dean of Distance Education Department (with additional charge of the Academics Department) at Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab.
We are inviting tribute from students/faculty/administration/alumni/friends, etc. Please send your memoirs and tribute about Prof. Singh, latest by 15th June to chronicle[AT]itbhuglobal.org. All tributes will be published in June issue of chronicle.
May his soul rest in peace.
Yogesh K. Upadhyaya
Chemical 1977
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