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| name = Aditya Narayan Purohit<br />
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| caption = Purohit addressing research community<br />
| title = Professor<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|07|30|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = Kimni, [[Tharali]], Chamoli, Uttarakhand, India<br />
| field = Ecophysiology of tree species and Physiology of high altitude medicinal plants<br />
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| prizes = [[Padma Shri]]<br />
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'''Aditya Narayan Purohit''' (born 30 July 1940) is an Indian scientist and professor who has mainly worked on [[ecophysiology]] of tree species and physiology of high altitude medicinal plants. He was the Vice-Chancellor of [[Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ucost.in/works/nasi.html |title=NASI UK |work=Ucost.in |access-date=26 June 2015}}</ref> and director of the university's High Altitude Plant Physiology Research Center.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hnbgu.ac.in/forms/departments.aspx?lid=259 |title=Schools – Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University |work=Hnbgu.ac.in |access-date=26 June 2015}}</ref> He was also the Director of [[G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment|Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development]] from 1990 to 1995.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gbpihed.gov.in/StaffDatabase/StaffDatabase.htm |title=GBPIHED :: Faculty & Supporting Staff |work=Gbpihed.gov.in |access-date=26 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629135745/http://gbpihed.gov.in/StaffDatabase/StaffDatabase.htm |archive-date=29 June 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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Purohit was awarded [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest civilian award of India, by the President of India in 1997 for his valuable scientific contribution in Indian mountains.<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954–2013) |publisher=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]], Government of India |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 |url-status=dead}} ()</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Purohit was born in Kimni, [[Chamoli]] district, [[Uttarakhand]], India.<ref name="adityapurohit.com">{{cite web |url=http://adityapurohit.com/ |title=Prof |work=Adityapurohit.com |access-date=26 June 2015}}</ref><br />
He had his early education in Tharali and Rudraprayag in [[Chamoli]] district, Lansdowne in [[Pauri]] district, [[Nainital]] and research studies in [[Panjab University Chandigarh]].<br />
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He worked at [[Forest Research Institute (India)|Forest Research Institute]] Dehradun, [[Panjab University, Chandigarh|Panjab University Chandigarh]], [[Central Potato Research Institute]], Shimla, the [[University of British Columbia]] and [[North Eastern Hill University]], Shillong before joining [[Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University|H.N.B. Garhwal University]] in 1977.<br />
He has travelled all over the world to deliver lecturers and seminars in various conferences. He is married to Malti Purohit; they have a daughter and a son.<br />
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After joining HNB Garhwal University, Purohit initiated work on high-altitude plants. He established an institute with its alpine field station at 13000-ft elevation at [[Tungnath]], which is the ''first Alpine Center in India''. The work conducted at this centre has revealed that ''high altitude species are less sensitive than the low altitude species to the environmental stresses''. The germination studies of alpine plants made by Purohit and his associates have helped in germinating many endangered species and establishing them in nature in the alpine field station at Tungnath. He and his associates have come up with the cultivation technology for Aconites, alpine and sub-alpine plants of very high medicinal value, where yield is increased 10 to 12 fold. He has made valuable scientific contribution on mountain plants and the mountain ecosystem. After retiring from [[Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University|H.N.B. Garhwal University]] in 2002, he was offered the special chair by Government of Uttarakhand to advice on conservation, development and cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants in the State. He has established a Centre for Aromatic Plants for the State.<ref name="adityapurohit.com" /><br />
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==Books edited==<br />
* Views on Physiology of Flowering,<ref>Gurumurti, K., Purohit, A. N., Nanda, K. K. (1978). Views on physiology of flowering: Professor K. K. Nanda commemoration volume. Dehra Dun: Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh.</ref> 1978 (with R. Gurumurti)<br />
* Conservation and Management of Biological Resources in Himalaya, 1996<ref>{{cite book|author=P. S. Ramakrishnan|title=Conservation and Management of Biological Resources in Himalaya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UyVFAQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Science Publishers|isbn=978-1-886106-88-8}}</ref> (with P.S. Ramakrishnan, K.G. Saxena, K.S. Rao and R.K. Maikhuri)<br />
* Harvesting the Herbs -2000, 1997 (with A.R. Nautiyal and M.C. Nautiyal)<br />
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