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| birth_date = 20 November 1923<br />
| birth_place = [[Indore]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], India<br />
| death_date = 27 May 2015<br />
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| spouse = Laxmi Sinvhal<br />
| children = Son (Dr. Harsh Sinvhal); Daughters (Dr. Sudha Agarwal, Ms. Priyamvada Sinvhal-Sharma)<br />
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'''Shambhu Dayal Sinvhal''' (20 November 1923 - 27 May 2015) was an Indian mathematician, astronomist and a former vice chancellor of [[Kumaon University]].<ref name="SINVHAL, Dr Shambhu Dayal">{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/stream/IndianWhosWho198081/TXT/00000155.txt | title=SINVHAL, Dr Shambhu Dayal | publisher=Indian Who's Who (1980-81) | date=2015 | access-date=16 June 2015}}</ref> Born on 20 November 1923 at [[Indore]] in the largest Indian state of [[Madhya Pradesh]] to B. D. Sinvhal and Tara Devi, he started his career as a member of the faculty of the department of mathematics and astronomy at [[Lucknow University]] in 1946 where he worked till 1954.<ref name="SINVHAL, Dr Shambhu Dayal" /> During this period, he secured a doctoral degree (PhD) in mathematics from Lucknow in 1951.<ref name="SINVHAL, Dr Shambhu Dayal" /> In 1954, he resigned from the university to take up the post of an assistant astronomer at Uttar Pradesh State Observatory and became its director<ref name="NASI Brochure">{{cite web | url=http://www.ucost.in/document/work/nasi/nasi-2012.pdf | title=NASI Brochure | publisher=UCost | date=2015 | access-date=16 June 2015}}</ref> in 1960, a post he held till his superannuation 1978.<ref name="SINVHAL, Dr Shambhu Dayal" /> He also worked as a professor at the University of Rourkee at the department of Earth Sciences.<ref name="Life Members">{{cite web | url=http://www.nasi.org.in/lifemem.asp?RsFilter=S | title=Life Members | publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India | date=2015 | access-date=16 June 2015}}</ref> In 1978, he was appointed as the vice chancellor of [[Kumaon University]].<ref name="SINVHAL, Dr Shambhu Dayal" /><br />
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Sinvhal was the president of ''Bharat Ganita Parishad''<ref name="SINVHAL, Dr Shambhu Dayal" /> and a member of [[International Astronomical Union]], London.<ref name="Transactions of the International Astronomical Union">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y93zCAAAQBAJ&q=Dr.+Shambhu+Dayal+Sinvhal&pg=PA286 | title=Transactions of the International Astronomical Union | publisher=Springer Science & Business Media | author=Immo Appenzeller | year=2012 | pages=929 | isbn=9789400901636}}</ref> He served [[Astronomical Society of India]] as a member of its executive council (1973–74), as its vice president (1975–76), as its president (1977-79) and was its life member.<ref name="SINVHAL, Dr Shambhu Dayal" /><ref name="ASI Life Members">{{cite web | url=http://www.astron-soc.in/members.php | title=ASI Life Members | publisher=Astronomical Society of India | date=2015 | access-date=16 June 2015}}</ref> He was a life member of the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]<ref name="Life Members" /> and a member of the [[American Mathematical Society]].<ref name="American Mathematical Society">{{cite web | url=http://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.bams/1183518019 | title=American Mathematical Society | publisher=[[Project Euclid]] | date=1953 | access-date=16 June 2015}}</ref> He chaired the Uttar Pradesh Higher Education Service Commission set up by the state government<ref name="NASI Brochure" /> and held memberships in the Instruments Society of India and the Optical Society of India.<ref name="SINVHAL, Dr Shambhu Dayal" /> He was a fellow of the [[Royal Astronomical Society]], London.<ref name="SINVHAL, Dr Shambhu Dayal" /> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] in 1975.<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}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Kumaon University]]<br />
* [[Royal Astronomical Society]]<br />
* [[Astronomical Society of India]]<br />
* [[International Astronomical Union]]<br />
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