Gobind Behari Lal

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Gobind Behari Lal
Ghadar Party
TitlePresident of the National Association of Science Writers
Term1940–41
PredecessorWilliam L. Laurence
SuccessorJohn Joseph O'Neill
MovementIndian independence movement
RelativesHar Dayal
AwardsPulitzer Prize (1937)
Padma Bhushan (1969)

Gobind Behari Lal was an Indian-American[

Hearst Newspapers. In 1937, he became the first Indian to win the Pulitzer Prize.[1]

Early life

Gobind Behari Lal was born to Bishan Lal, the Governor of the

Punjab University
at Lahore. He served as an assistant professor at the University from 1909 to 1912.

Lal was the cousin of the Indian nationalist

Lala Har Dayal's wife, and participated in the Indian independence movement.[3][4] Har Dayal set up the Guru Govind Singh Sahib Educational Scholarship to encourage Indian students to gain scientific education. Lal began attending the University of California, Berkeley in 1912 on this scholarship.[5] He completed his postgraduate education
there.

Career

Lal served as the Science Editor for

Mohandas K. Gandhi, H. L. Mencken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Enrico Fermi and Max Planck.[2]

Lal shared the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Reporting with John J. O'Neill, William L. Laurence, Howard W. Blakeslee and David Dietz. The group won the award for their coverage of science at the tercentenary of Harvard University.[7]

Lal was one of the founding members of the National Association of Science Writers, and served as the Association's President in 1940.[2]

Lal died of cancer in 1982 at the age of 92, a few weeks after writing his last article.[6]

Awards and recognitions

The Gobind Behari Lal Scholarship in Science Journalism awarded by the Center for South Asia Studies of UC Berkeley was named after him.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Indians hit the highspots in American journalism". The Times of India. 16 March 2013. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2
    . Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  3. ISBN 978-81-86954-00-3
    . Govind Behari Lal, Har Dayal's wife's cousin and an important Gadar worker...
  4. ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2
    . Lal worked for Indian independence...
  5. ^ "Echoes of Freedom: Gobind Behari Lal". UC Berkeley. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  6. ^ a b "Obituary: Gobind Behari Lal, reporter; shared Pulitzer Prize in 1937". New York Times. 3 April 1982. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  7. ^ "Pulitzer Prizes: Reporting". Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  8. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  9. ^ "Privately funded programs". Center for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
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