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Hakumat Rai
I was born on March 10th, 1933 in New Delhi, India. I graduated from the Board of
Higher Secondary School Education in 1951. At the age of 18, I joined the University
of Delhi to study Zoology and in 1954, I received a B.Sc. (honours) degree in Zoology.
In 1956, I received M. Sc. degree in Zoology with Fish and Fisheries as a specialization.
During my M.Sc. degree course, I studied Botany as an obligatory subject, where I
first came in contact with the world of planktonic micro-
From 1956 to 1959, I worked for various research projects of the Counsel of Scientific
and Insdustrial Research (CSIR) at the University of Delhi, India. In 1960, I was
appointed as an Assistant Professor of Sanitory Microbiology, at the Public Health
Engineering Institute, University of Roorkee, India.
In 1962, I was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Department of S Public Health Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
In 1967, I was awarded a scholarship to work on my Ph.D. degree at the Department
of Botany, Institute of Limnology, University of Zurich, Switzerland. In 1969, I
received my Ph.D. Degree. From 1970 to 1998, I worked as a senior research scientist
at the Max-
I am an auto deduct and learned ceramic art by myself by just reading books of the Contemporary Ceramics and observing ceramic artists shaping their work at various exhibitions of craft and art of clay, in the different countries of the world..
Research
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