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182:(IAU) in 1973. Besides joining IAU Commissions of his specialty, Ansari joined also IAU Commission 41 (History of Astronomy) in which he became so active that he was elected as its Vice-president for 1991–1994, and President for 1994-1997. Ansari was the first Indian/Asian President of Commission 41 since its inception.
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Ansari, S. M. Razaullah (1967). "Quasi-binomial Representations of Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients".
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