Dr. Kedar Lal Shrestha (Nepali: केदारलाल श्रेष्ठ) was a physicist and academic of Nepal. He was born on 23 October 1938 in Lalitpur, Nepal.[1] He served for various governmental and non-governmental agencies including policy making of Kathmandu Metropolitan. He died in 2020.[2]

Biography edit

Shrestha was born as a single child of father Ratna Lal Shrestha and mother Hari Devi Shrestha. He did his schooling from Patan High School in 2009 B.S. He completed ISc from Trichandra College and MSc from Allahabad University in 1960 with physics as a major.[3] He received a PhD from Queensland University in 1967.[citation needed]

After PhD, he started as a professor in physics in Tribhuwan University. He worked as department head from 1971 to 1986. From 1979 to 1986, he worked for RECAST.[4] He also worked as vice president in Nepal Academy of Science and Technology from 1992 to 1997.[5][6]

He has two sons and two daughters.[7]

He died in 2020 at the age of 82 in Kathmandu.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ An encounter with Kedar Lal Shrestha (PDF) (12 ed.). Symmetry. 2018. pp. 34–41.
  2. ^ "रहनुभएन भौतिकशास्त्री–वैज्ञानिक डा. केदारलाल श्रेष्ठ". ekagaj. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  3. ^ "सालिन भौतिकशास्त्री डा. केदारलाल श्रेष्ठ". 5 January 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  4. ^ a b "नास्टका पूर्वउपकुलपति केदारलाल श्रेष्ठको निधन". Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  5. ^ "केदारलाल श्रेष्ठ Archives - Nepalpatra Nepalpatra". Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  6. ^ "ध्वस्त पार्‍यौं काठमाडौं, अब सम्हालौं". Setopati. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  7. ^ "रहेनन् ललितपुर महानगर सल्लाहकार शिक्षाविद् केदारलाल श्रेष्ठ". News of Nepal. Retrieved 17 January 2021.