| LC control no. | n 82009536 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Swaminathan, M. S. (Monkombu Sambasivan) |
| Variant(s) | Swaminathan, Monkombu Sambasivan Sambasivan Swaminathan, Monkombu |
| Located | Chennai (India) |
| Birth date | 1925-08-07 |
| Death date | 2023-09-28 |
| Place of birth | Kumbakonam (India) |
| Place of death | Chennai (India) |
| Field of activity | Agriculture India--Politics and government |
| Affiliation | India. National Commission on Farmers M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (Chennai, India) Indian Agricultural Research Institute India. Parliament. Rajya Sabha University of Cambridge |
| Profession or occupation | Agriculturists Legislators |
| Found in | Author's The cytology and ... Environment and agriculture, 2006: t.p. (Dr. M.S. Swaminathan; chairman, National Commission on Farmers; chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation) Life and work of M.S. Swaminathan, 2005: p. 15 (b. Aug. 7, 1925) Washington post WWW site, viewed October 2, 2023 (in obituary dated September 28, 2023: M.S. Swaminathan, an Indian agricultural scientist who vastly expanded his country's production of wheat and rice as a mastermind of the "Green Revolution" in the 1960s, died Sept. 28 at his home in the city of Chennai. He was 98. Dr. Swaminathan held an array of positions in government and scientific institutions, including the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi and, in the later years of his life, the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of India's Parliament. Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on Aug. 7, 1925. Dr. Swaminathan studied agriculture and plant genetics in England, where he received a doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge in 1952) |
| Associated language | eng |
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