About this stamp
Scientist and Educationist
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 6 March 2019 for the birth centenary of Professor Ram Chand Paul (1919–2002), chemist, teacher and Vice-Chancellor of Panjab University. He was born in Shakargarh, now in Pakistan, on 20 October 1919, studied in Lahore and Amritsar, and took his M.Sc. from the Honours School of Chemistry of Punjab University, Lahore, in 1940. He earned a Ph.D. at Lahore in 1947 under Dr S. D. Muzaffar, a second Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1954 and, in 1968, the Cambridge degree of Doctor of Science.
Panjab University
At Panjab University he was Professor and Head of Chemistry (1959–74), Dean of University Instruction (1965–67) and Vice-Chancellor (1974–84). Under him the chemistry department became a UGC Centre for Advanced Studies, and his efforts brought the Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre and the Central Instrumentation Laboratory to the campus. He founded a school of non-aqueous solvent chemistry, and 80 research scholars completed their Ph.D.s under him.
Teaching Chemistry
He directed the study group (1966–70) that wrote NCERT’s chemistry textbooks, laboratory manuals and teachers’ guides for classes 6 to 10, and led a UGC programme that improved college chemistry teaching in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. He was a fellow of all three national science academies, General Secretary of the Indian Science Congress (1971–73) and received a lifetime achievement award from the Indian Chemical Society. A keen swimmer, he opened the campus to the Indian hockey team in 1975, the year it won the World Cup.
On the Stamp
The stamp shows his portrait against a violet background of molecular structures. It was designed by Gulistaan, with the cancellation by Nenu Gupta; 402,380 were printed by wet offset at the Security Printing Press, Hyderabad.
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