page_title: Ratan Shankar Mishra
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Ratan Shankar Mishra / Biography
context_page_description: Ratan Shankar Mishra was an Indian mathematician and academic who was known for his solutions to the Unified fluid theory of Albert Einstein. He headed the department of Mathematics of the University of Gorakhpur and University of Allahabad and served as the vice chancellor of Lucknow University, as the reader at University of Delhi and as the dean at Banares Hindu University, Varanasi. He was honoured by the Government of India in 1971 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.
context_section_description: Ratan Shankar Mishra was born on 15 October 1918 at Ajgaon, a small hamlet in Unnao district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Hi completed his schooling from the Government High School in Unnao in 1937 and did intermediate course at Kanyakubj Inter College, Lucknow after which he passed BSc with honours and MSc from Lucknow University. He continued his studies at Delhi University and secured a doctoral degree (PhD) in 1947, the first PhD awarded by the university in Mathematics. His Doctor of Science degree (DSc) came from Lucknow University in 1952, again the first DSc degree awarded by Lucknow University.
  Mishra had already started his career while doing his doctoral research by joining the faculty of Mathematics at Ramjas College in 1944, later worked at Delhi College of Arts and Commerce and moved to Lucknow University where he worked till 1954. That year, he was appointed as the reader at the University of Delhi and stayed at the Indian capital till 1958. When Gorakhpur University invited him to head the department of Mathematics in 1958, he accepted the offer and shifted to the University of Allahabad to head the department of mathematics there. He was promoted as the dean in 1965 and in 1968, he joined Banares Hindu University as a selection grade professor and headed the maths and statistics department. In 1973, he became the Chief Proctor of the university and in 1975 became the dean to finally retire in 1978. After retirement, he worked as a visiting professor at Jammu University for a short term and took up the post of the vice chancellor of Lucknow University in 1982. In 1985, he resigned from the post to associate himself with Tensor, the University International Maths Journal, published from Japan. He also served as a visiting professor at University of Kuwait (1970, 1980–81, 1986), University of Windsor (1974) and the University of Waterloo (1967, 1972) and had associations with Kanpur University in academic matters.
  Ratan Shankar Mishra died on 23 August 1999, at the age of 80.
caption: Lucknow University - Old campus
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