Giri Raj Singh Sirohi

Giri Raj Singh Sirohi was an Indian plant physiologist who was the first Indian to set foot on the south pole of Antarctica.

The objective of the experiments was to collect data on the Biological Clock at the South Pole, since it represented a place where the rotational activity of the Earth could be negated.

[1] He worked as Head & Professor of Plant Physiology Division, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi, India.

[2] Sirohi received the lifetime award from the Indian Society for Plant Physiology in 2003.

[3] To honour his breakthrough contribution to the Science of Plant Physiology, the Government of United States named a place in Antarctica after him as Sirohi Point in 1961.