Ezekiel, Moses
EZEKIEL, MOSES
EZEKIEL, MOSES (1891–1969), Indian botanist. Born in Nagpur, Ezekiel was economic botanist to the government of Gwalior (1918–22), professor of botany at Wilson College, Bombay, and later principal of the College of Science at Nadiad, Gujarat (1947–50). From 1952 he headed the biology department at Petlad College. His works include Animal Histology (1927), A Handbook of Plant Sociology (1947), and Three Great Evils – Contamination, Adulteration and Poisoning of Foodstuffs (1947). Ezekiel, who was active in Jewish life, also wrote The History and Culture of the Bene-Israel in India (1948).
[Mordecai L. Gabriel]
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