Virender Lal Chopra (1936–2020)

Professor Virender Lal Chopra, an eminent agricultural geneticist and biotechnologist, passed away on 18 April 2020 at New Delhi. He was born on 9 August 1936 in Adhwal, a small village in the periphery of Rawalpindi in West Punjab that was part of British India. His father Harbans Lal and mother Sukhwanti moved to Delhi following partition of India in 1947 which also was the year of India’s independence. His schooling was at Ramjas School, Delhi.