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| birth_place = [[Kot Majlas]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab Province]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2012|7|8|1930|10|12}}<br />
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| fields = {{ublist | [[Reproductive physiology]] | [[Cell biology]] }}<br />
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Gorakhpur University]] | [[Population Council]] | [[Council for Scientific and Industrial Research]] | [[Mohanlal Sukhadia University]] | [[Punjab Agricultural University]] }}<br />
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Panjab University, Chandigarh]] |International University Foundation }}<br />
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| known_for = Evolutionary significance of reproductive processes<br />
| awards = 1973&nbsp;[[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]]<br>1980&nbsp;PAU Prize<br>1985&nbsp;M. S. Randhawa Award<br>[[Indian Council of Medical Research|1990&nbsp;ICMR]] Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize<br />
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'''Sardul Singh Guraya''' (1930–2012) was an Indian biologist, known for his contributions in the fields of [[reproductive physiology]] and [[Developmental biology]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=316 | title=Brief Profile of the Awardee | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=15 September 2016}}</ref> He was an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]], [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] and [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences]].<ref name="Deceased fellow - Sardul Singh Guraya">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/N80-0308 |title=Deceased fellow - Sardul Singh Guraya |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=16 September 2016}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1973, for his contributions to biological sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=4 September 2016}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Sardul Singh Guraya was born on 12 October 1930 to Banta Singh Guraya and Nihal Kaur at [[Kot Majlas]] village in [[Gurdaspur district]] of Punjab in [[British India]].<ref name="Sardul Singh Guraya (1930–2012)">{{cite journal | url=http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/103/07/0839.pdf | title=Sardul Singh Guraya (1930–2012) | author=S. K. Saidapur | journal=Current Science | date=10 October 2012 | volume=103 | issue=7 | pages=839–840}}</ref> He graduated in science (BSc hons) in 1954 from [[Punjab University, Chandigarh, India|Punjab University]] from where he also obtained his master's (MSc) and doctoral (PhD) degrees in 1956 and 1959 respectively and started his career as an assistant professor at [[Gorakhpur University]] in 1960. Two years later, he moved to the US and did his post doctoral studies at the [[Population Council]] from 1962 to 1964. Returning to India in 1965, he joined the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] as a pool officer and stayed at the council for one year till he returned to academics as the reader of [[Mohanlal Sukhadia University]] (then known as Udaipur University) in 1966. His next move was as a professor to [[Punjab Agricultural University]] in 1971 where he served out his career till his superannuation in 1992; in between, holding the positions of the dean of the College of Basic Sciences and Humanities and of the director of ''Advance Regional Research Center in Reproductive Biology'' (an [[Indian Council of Medical Research]] sponsored initiative) from 1982 to 1991. During the course of his career, he secured a Doctor Science degree from Punjab University, Chandigarh in 1971.<ref name="Deceased fellow - Sardul Singh Guraya" /><br />
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Guraya was married to Surinder Kaur and the couple had two sons and a daughter. He died on 8 July 2012, at the age of 81.<ref name="Sardul Singh Guraya (1930–2012)" /><br />
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== Legacy ==<br />
Guraya was known to have done pioneering research on ''genetical divergence of crops with different breeding systems'' which inaugurated a new school of thought on the subject.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | accessdate=15 September 2016 | pages=31}}</ref> His studies dealt with the correlation between the structure and function of reproductive organs and elucidated its evolutionary aspects, with special emphasis on the ovarian and testicular compartments.<ref name="Guraya1989">{{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Ovarian follicles in reptiles and birds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TqTwAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Springer London, Limited|isbn=978-3-540-50416-0}}</ref><ref name="Guraya1997">{{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Ovarian Biology in Buffaloes and Cattle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OPhFAAAAYAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Directorate of Information and Publication of Agriculture, Indian Council of Agricultural Research}}</ref><ref name="Guraya1999">{{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Comparative Testicular Biology in Animals: Structure, Functions, and Intercellular Communication|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=65nwAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Science Publishers|isbn=978-1-57808-066-3}}</ref> His findings on the developmental traits of crops was reported to have assisted in crop improvement with regard to disease resistance, productivity and grain quality. He published his research findings in several articles{{Refn|group=note|While many of Guraya's articles are co-written, majority of his books are single-author publications (please see bibliography).}} and over 10 books; [[PubMed]], an online article repository has listed 215 of his articles.<ref name="Guraya SS[au] on Pubmed">{{cite web | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=search&term=Guraya%20SS%5Bau%5D&dispmax=50 | title=Guraya SS[au] on Pubmed | publisher=Pubmed | date=2016 | accessdate=19 September 2016}}</ref> His body of work includes ''The Cell and Molecular Biology of Fish Oogenesis'',<ref name="Guraya1986">{{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=The Cell and Molecular Biology of Fish Oogenesis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-xM9T9bfhr4C|date=1 January 1986|publisher=Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers|isbn=978-3-8055-4253-1}}</ref> ''Cellular and Molecular Biology of Gonadal Development and Maturation in Mammals: Fundamentals and Biomedical Implications'',<ref name="Guraya1998">{{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Cellular and Molecular Biology of Gonadal Development and Maturation in Mammals: Fundamentals and Biomedical Implications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7bnwAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=978-3-540-63690-8}}</ref> ''Comparative Cellular and Molecular Biology of Ovary in Mammals: Fundamental and Applied Aspects'',<ref name="Guraya2000">{{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Comparative Cellular and Molecular Biology of Ovary in Mammals: Fundamental and Applied Aspects|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sq7wAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Science Publishers|isbn=978-1-57808-127-1}}</ref> ''Comparative Cellular and Molecular Biology of Testis in Vertebrates: Trends in Endocrine, Paracrine, and Autocrine Regulation of Structure and Functions'',<ref name="Guraya2001">{{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Comparative Cellular and Molecular Biology of Testis in Vertebrates: Trends in Endocrine, Paracrine, and Autocrine Regulation of Structure and Functions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s0ZFAQAAIAAJ|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Science Publishers|isbn=978-1-57808-165-3}}</ref> ''Cellular And Molecular Biology For Human'',<ref name="Guraya2007">{{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Cellular And Molecular Biology For Human|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=skFC-ZgCewUC|date=1 January 2007|publisher=New Age International|isbn=978-81-224-1968-9}}</ref> (all on [[Cell biology|Cell]] and [[Molecular biology]]), ''Biology of Spermatogenesis and Spermatozoa in Mammals'',<ref name="Guraya2011">{{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Biology of Spermatogenesis and Spermatozoa in Mammals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MbuqoAEACAAJ|date=6 December 2011|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|isbn=978-3-642-71639-3}}</ref> ''Biology of Spermatogenesis and Spermatozoa in Mammals'',<ref name="Guraya2012">{{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Biology of Spermatogenesis and Spermatozoa in Mammals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DebrCAAAQBAJ|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-71638-6}}</ref> ''Buffalo bull semen: morphology, biochemistry, physiology and methodology''<ref name="SidhuGuraya1985">{{cite book|author1=Kuldip Singh Sidhu|author2=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Buffalo bull semen: morphology, biochemistry, physiology and methodology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4PVUAAAAYAAJ|year=1985|publisher=USG Publishers & Distributors}}</ref> (all on [[spermatogenesis]]) and ''Rodents: ecology, biology and control''.<ref name="ChopraKaur1996">{{cite book|author1=Girish Chopra|author2=Patwant Kaur|author3=Sardul S Guraya|title=Rodents: ecology, biology and control|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c6FFAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=R. Chand}}</ref> He was associated with national and international organizations such as [[World Health Organization]], [[UNESCO]], [[Indian Council of Medical Research]], [[Indian Council of Agricultural Research]], [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] and the [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]] and served as the member of the council of [[Indian National Science Academy]] (INSA) from 1986 to 1988. He was also a member of the editorial boards of ''Journal of Biosciences'', ''Himalayan Journal of Environment and Zoology'' and the journals of the INSA.<ref name="Deceased fellow - Sardul Singh Guraya" /><br />
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== Awards and honors ==<br />
Guraya, who served as the national lecturer of the [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]] from 1971 to 1976, was an emeritus scientist (1992–1996) and a professor emeritus (1996–2000) at the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]].<ref name="Deceased fellow - Sardul Singh Guraya" /> He was awarded the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, by the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] in 1973.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee" /> He received the PAU Prize in 1980, followed by the ''M. S. Randhawa Award for Best Book'' in 1985 and the Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize of [[Indian Council of Medical Research]] in 1990.<ref name="Sardul Singh Guraya (1930–2012)" /> An elected fellow of the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]],<ref name="NASI Fellows">{{cite web | url=http://www.nasi.org.in/deceased.htm | title=NASI Fellows | publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India | date=2016 | accessdate=19 September 2016 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528102550/http://www.nasi.org.in/deceased.htm | archivedate=28 May 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> he was elected as a fellow by the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] in 1975<ref name="IAS Fellows - Sardul Singh Guraya">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Murty,_Dr_Bhyravabhotla_Radhakrishna | title=IAS Fellows - Sardul Singh Guraya | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences | date=2016 | accessdate=16 September 2016}}</ref> and by the [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 1980. He was also a fellow of the [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences]]. His biography has been included in the volume 40 of the ''Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Indian National Science Academy'', published by INSA in 2013.<ref name="Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Indian National Science Academy">{{cite web | url=http://www.dkagencies.com/doc/from/1063/to/1123/bkId/DK645523321744187337475851371/details.html | title=Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Indian National Science Academy | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2013 | accessdate=19 September 2016 | pages=178}}</ref><br />
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== Selected bibliography ==<br />
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=== Books ===<br />
* {{cite book|author1=Kuldip Singh Sidhu|author2=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Buffalo bull semen: morphology, biochemistry, physiology and methodology|year=1985|publisher=USG Publishers & Distributors}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=The Cell and Molecular Biology of Fish Oogenesis|date=1 January 1986|publisher=Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers|isbn=978-3-8055-4253-1}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Ovarian follicles in reptiles and birds|year=1989|publisher=Springer London, Limited|isbn=978-3-540-50416-0}}<br />
* {{cite book|author1=Girish Chopra|author2=Patwant Kaur|author3=Sardul S Guraya|title=Rodents: ecology, biology and control|year=1996|publisher=R. Chand}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Ovarian Biology in Buffaloes and Cattle|year=1997|publisher=Directorate of Information and Publication of Agriculture, Indian Council of Agricultural Research}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Cellular and Molecular Biology of Gonadal Development and Maturation in Mammals: Fundamentals and Biomedical Implications|year=1998|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=978-3-540-63690-8}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Comparative Testicular Biology in Animals: Structure, Functions, and Intercellular Communication|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Science Publishers|isbn=978-1-57808-066-3}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Comparative Cellular and Molecular Biology of Ovary in Mammals: Fundamental and Applied Aspects|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Science Publishers|isbn=978-1-57808-127-1}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Comparative Cellular and Molecular Biology of Testis in Vertebrates: Trends in Endocrine, Paracrine, and Autocrine Regulation of Structure and Functions|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Science Publishers|isbn=978-1-57808-165-3}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Cellular And Molecular Biology For Human|date=1 January 2007|publisher=New Age International|isbn=978-81-224-1968-9}}<br />
* {{cite book | title=Comparative Cellular and Molecular Biology in Ovary in Amphibians | publisher=IK International Publishing House | author=Sardul S Guraya | year=2011 | pages=132 | isbn=9789381141069}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=Sardul S. Guraya|title=Biology of Spermatogenesis and Spermatozoa in Mammals|date=6 December 2011|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|isbn=978-3-642-71639-3}}<br />
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=== Articles ===<br />
* {{cite journal | title=Lipids in the Human Oocyte | author=Sardul Singh Guraya | journal=Journal of Microscopical Science | year=1961 | volume=102 | issue=3 | pages=381–385}}<br />
* {{cite journal | title=Mechanism of ovulation--an overview. | author=Guraya S. S., Dhanju C. K. | journal=Indian J Exp Biol | date=November 1992 | volume=30 | issue=11 | pages=958–967 | pmid=1293040}}<br />
* {{cite journal | title=Effect of calmodulin-like protein from buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) seminal plasma on Ca2+, Mg(2+)-ATPase of purified plasma membrane of buffalo spermatozoa. | author=Sidhu K. S., Guraya S. S. | journal=Andrologia | date=January 1993 | volume=25 | issue=1 | pages=25–28 | pmid=8427418| doi=10.1111/j.1439-0272.1993.tb02677.x | s2cid=39943840 | doi-access=free }}<br />
* {{cite journal | title=Effect of LH and estradiol on in vitro maturation of hamster follicular oocytes. |author1=Kaur J. |author2=Guraya S. S. |author3=Sidhu K. S. | journal=Indian J Exp Biol | date=February 1994 | volume=32 | issue=2 | pages=44–45 | pmid=8045614}}<br />
* {{cite journal | title=Induction of buffalo (Bubalus bubalis ) sperm capacitation and acrosome reaction in the excised reproductive tract of hamsters. |author1=Dhindsa J. S. |author2=Sidhu K. S. |author3=Guraya S. S. | journal=Theriogenology | date=September 1995 | volume=44 | issue=4 | pages=599–608 | pmid=16727757 | doi = 10.1016/0093-691x(95)00230-6 }}<br />
* {{cite journal | title=Atropine and testosterone propionate induced atretic changes in granulosa cells of house rat (Rattus rattus) ovary. | author=Sharma R. K., Guraya S. S. | journal=Indian J Exp Biol | date=November 1997 | volume=35 | issue=11 | pages=1166–1169 | pmid=9567743}}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University]]<br />
* [[Panjab University]]<br />
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* {{cite web | url=http://encore.seals.ac.za/iii/encore_nmmu/plus/C__SGuraya,%20Sardul%20S.,1930-__Orightresult;jsessionid=D6466173C2C599DA600B0A0E72632DC3?lang=eng&suite=nmmu | title=Guraya, Sardul S.,1930- | publisher=Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University | work=Author search | date=2016 | accessdate=19 September 2016}}<br />
* {{cite web | url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/obituaries/83168617/sardul-singh-guraya-1930-2012 | title=Sardul Singh Guraya (1930-2012) | publisher=EBSCO Host Connection | work=Article listing | date=2016 | accessdate=19 September 2016}}{{dead link|date=November 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}<br />
* {{cite web | url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85051817.html | title=Guraya, Sardul S., 1930- | publisher=Library of Congress | work=Author profile | date=2016 | accessdate=19 September 2016}}<br />
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