Shamim Jairajpuri
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Shamim Jairajpuri was born in 1942 in the village Jairajpur, Azamgarh District, Uttar Pradesh, India. He obtained his B.Sc. (1959), M.Sc. (1961) and Ph.D(1964) from Aligarh Muslim University.
Prof. Jairajpuri was first appointed a Lecturer (1964) then a Reader (1972), Professor (1983), Chairman (1988-89 & 1997-98) of the Zoology Department and Dean (1993-95 & 1997-98) of the Faculty of Life Sciences, AMU. The degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) was awarded to him in Zoology by Aligarh Muslim University in 1970 on his outstanding work on Neuratology in particular on Taxonomy, at a young age of 28 years only.
Shamim Jairajpuri has done pioneering research on plant and soil nematodes for which the Zoological Survey of India awarded him with gold medal in 1997 and 1998. He is considered a renowned world authority in this subject. He has published over 20 Books and Monograms, over 350 research papers and contributed numerous book chapters and general articles in reputed Journals of the world. He has the distinction of publishing over 80 research papers in Nematologica (The Netherlands) and over 40 papers in Revue de Nematologie (France), the two top most international journals in the subject of Nematology.
Shamim Jairajpuri was appointed Coordinator of the Agriculture Center at AMU and became the Founder Director of the Institute of Agriculture in 1993 and worked in that capacity until July 1996 and through ceasless efforts he developed it into an organisation of national status. He was the Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences and also simultaneously Chairman of the Department of Zoology, Museology and Wildlife Sciences. Prof. Jairajpuri is member of several high-powered committees of the Government of India. Since 9 January 1998 has worked as the Founder Vice Chancellor of the Maulana Azad National Urdu University and simultaneously as the Honorary Professor in School of Life Sciences of the University of Hyderabad.
