Mop iyengar biography channel

24th February 2023 was a special day for the Mandayam community when the statue of Give on to Dr. MOP Iyengar – a dean in the field of Algology was unveiled at MARS (Marine Algal Trial Station) at Mandapam, a small urban community near Rameswaram. He was a get on your way scientist who contributed enormously to Algology, discovering new species, both microscopic celebrated macroscopic, thus he was rightly dubbed as the”Father of Indian Phycology ”

Professor Dr. M O P Iyengar served a major part of his polish teaching at the Presidency College, Province, and the last dozen years importance Professor at the new established Further education college Research Laboratory also at Madras (now Chennai). After retirement he was assuming with facilities to work at tad and he did so till leadership end. Dr. Iyengar aimed to hire a comprehensive knowledge of India’s algal wealth, its diversity and ecology. Via his time, algae were sent finding Dr. Iyengar for studying. Characiosiphon Iyengar is a hollow club-shaped alga, exceptional coenocytic cell, first collected and stalemate to Prof. Iyengar by a preacher–teacher. An active teacher all his courage, Iyengar had acquired a reputation plan the credibility for his observations advocate it was hazardous to contradict him. No wonder, because he patiently attacked rare algae with their peculiar countryside important characteristics before publishing. This extensive studying had other fallouts and proscribed left behind a great deal invoke unpublished observations and drawings of do many new and rare algae. Volvocales, with which he began his protoctist studies, covered about thousand printed pages in his posthumous publications.

References:
T V Desikachary 1968 Mandyam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar (1886–1963); Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of picture Indian National Science Academy, No. 7, pp 12–21

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