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| birth_place = Tulundi, Barpali, [[Odisha]]
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'''Parshuram Mishra''' (25 January 1894 – 4 August 1981) was an Indian botanist, educationist and the first vice chancellor of the [[Sambalpur University]].<ref name="PMIASE">{{cite web | url=http://www.pmiasesambalpur.org/ | title=PMIASE | publisher=PMIASE | date=2015 | accessdate=27 April 2015}}</ref> He completed his college studies at the [[University of Calcutta]] in 1961<ref name="University of Calcutta">{{cite web | url=http://botany.caluniv.in/alumni/valum.asp | title=University of Calcutta | publisher=University of Calcutta | date=2015 | accessdate=27 April 2015}}</ref> and secured a doctoral degree (PhD) from the [[University of Leeds]], the first person from Odisha to secure a doctoral degree from the university.<ref name="Blog report">{{cite web | url=http://amareshcd.blogspot.ae/2012/06/lines-about-prof-parsuram-mishra-first.html | title=Blog report | publisher=Blog report | date=2015 | accessdate=27 April 2015}}</ref> He is a former member of faculty at Leeds during which period he published several botanical articles.<ref name="The constitution of the cambium, the new wood and the mature sapwood of the common ash, the common elm and the Scotch pine">{{cite journal | url=http://www.biochemj.org/bj/034/bj0341078.htm | title=The constitution of the cambium, the new wood and the mature sapwood of the common ash, the common elm and the Scotch pine | author=Allan Allsopp, Parasuram Misra | journal=Biochem. J. | year=1940 | volume=34 | pages=1078–1084 | doi=10.1042/bj0341078| pmc=1265385 | pmid=16747252}}</ref> Returning to India, he became the vice chancellor of [[Utkal University]].<ref name="PMIASE" /> When the [[Government of Odisha]] started [[Sambalpur University]] in 1967, Mishra was made the first vice chancellor.<ref name="Sambalpur University">{{cite web | url=http://www.suniv.ac.in/ | title=Sambalpur University | publisher=Sambalpur University | date=2015 | accessdate=27 April 2015}}</ref>

The [[Government of India]] honoured him in 1960, with the award of [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest Indian civilian award for his services to the nation.<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2015 |access-date=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref> Dr. P. M. Institute of Advanced Study in Education, an institution started in 1988 for advanced studies in education is named after him.<ref name="Pmiase history">{{cite web | url=http://www.pmiasesambalpur.org/history.htm | title=Pmiase history | publisher=PMIASE | date=2015 | accessdate=27 April 2015}}</ref>

==Further reading==
* {{cite journal | url=http://www.biochemj.org/bj/034/bj0341078.htm | title=The constitution of the cambium, the new wood and the mature sapwood of the common ash, the common elm and the Scotch pine | author=Allan Allsopp, Parasuram Misra | journal=Biochem. J. | year=1940 | volume=34 | pages=1078–1084 | doi=10.1042/bj0341078| pmc=1265385 | pmid=16747252}}

==References==
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