Devendra Lal

Devendra Lal

Born	(1929-02-14)14 February 1929 Varanasi, India
Died	1 December 2012(2012-12-01) (aged 83) La Jolla, California, United States
Nationality	India
Fields	Geophysics
Institutions	TIFR Director, Physical Research Laboratory Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Alma mater	Banares Hindu University TIFR
Thesis	(1960)
Academic advisors	Bernard Peters
Notable awards	Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, 1967 Krishnan Medal, Indian Geophysical Union, 1965 Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, 1972 Fellow, FRS, 1979 Fellow, Meteoritical Society, 1970 Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, 1975 V.M. Goldschmidt Medal, Geochemical Society, 1997 Padma Shri, 1971
Spouse	Aruna Lal (née Damany)

Devendra Lal FRS (14 February 1929 – 1 December 2012) was an Indian geophysicist.

Life

He was born in Varanasi, India.^[1] He graduated from Banaras Hindu University.^[2] He graduated from Bombay University; his thesis was on cosmic ray physics; his thesis adviser was Bernard Peters.^[3]

He was Director, of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad from 1972 to 1983.^[4]

He was Visiting Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, from 1989 to 2012.^[5]^[6]

References

↑ ":: SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHY NEWS : : Obituary Notice: Devendra Lal: 1929-2012 ::". Scrippsnews.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
↑ ":: Scripps Institution Of Oceanography, Ucsd : :::". Sio.ucsd.edu. 2012-12-10. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
↑ "Devendra Lal (1929-2012)". www.geochemsoc.org. Geochemical Society. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
↑ "Geophysicist Devendra Lal Dead". India Journal. 2012-12-15. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
↑ "Devendra Lal, 1929-2012". The Meteoritical Society. 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
↑ Special Correspondent (2012-12-08). "Geophysicist Devendra Lal passes away". The Hindu. Retrieved 2013-05-28.

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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Physical Sciences

K. S. Krishnan (1958) M. G. K. Menon (1960) G. N. Ramachandran (1961) Vikram Sarabhai (1962) Raja Ramanna (1963) A. R. Verma (1964) R. B. Ramachandra (1965) S. C. Jain (1966) S. Ramaseshan (1966) Devendra Lal (1967) A. P. Mitra (1968) Asoke Nath Mitra (1969) Vainu Bappu (1970) P. K. Iyengar (1971) S. Chandrasekhar (1972) S. K. Joshi (1972) Virendra Singh (1973) K. P. Sinha (1974) M. S. Sodha (1974) K. L. Chopra (1975) B. R. Nag (1975) C. K. Majumdar (1976) Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan (1976) Jayant Narlikar (1978) E. S. Rajagopal (1978) Ajoy Ghatak (1979) S. S. Jha (1979) N. Mukunda (1980) N. S. Satyamurthy (1980) S. M. Roy (1981) Ramanujan Srinivasan (1981) Girish Saran Agarwal (1982) T. V. Ramakrishnan (1982) S. S. Kapoor (1982) Ramamurti Rajaraman (1983) Ramanath Cowsik (1984) Ranganathan Shashidhar (1984) Narendra Kumar (1985) K. Singh (1985) P. K. Kaw (1986) Vijay Kumar Kapahi (1987) Probir Roy (1987) Deepak Kumar (1988) O. N. Srivastava (1988) M. Lakshmanan (1989) N. V. Madhusudhana (1989) G. Baskaran (1990) A. K. Sood (1990) Deepak Dhar (1991) Deepak Mathur (1991) Vikram Kumar (1992) S. R. Shenoy (1992) Krishna Gopal (1993) Rajiah Simon (1993) A. K. Raychaudhuri (1994) Ashoke Sen (1994) Mustansir Barma (1995) Thanu Padmanabhan (1996) B. K. Chakrabarti (1997) A. Raychaudhuri (1997) S. R. Das (1998) A. M. Jayannavar (1998) Sunil Mukhi (1999) E. V. Sampathkumaran (1999) Sriram Ramaswamy (2000) Varun Sahni (2000) Rahul Pandit (2001) Avinash Anant Deshpande (2002) Mohit Randeria (2002) G. Ravindra Kumar (2003) Biswarup Mukhopadhyay (2003) Madan Rao (2004) Sandip Trivedi (2005) Atish Dabholkar (2006) Sanjay Puri (2006) Yashwant Gupta (2007) Pinaki Majumdar (2007) Raghunathan Srianand (2008) Srikanth Sastry (2008) Rajesh Gopakumar (2009) Abhishek Dhar (2009) Kalobaran Maiti (2010) Umesh Waghmare (2010) Shiraz Minwalla (2011) Arindam Ghosh (2012) Krishnendu Sengupta (2012) Amol Dighe (2013) Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy (2013) Pratap Raychaudhuri (2014) Sadiqali Abbas Rangwala (2014) Bedangadas Mohanty (2015) Mandar Madhukar Deshmukh (2015) Subramanian Anantha Ramakrishna (2016)

All the branches	Biological Science Chemical Science Engineering Science Mathematical Science Medical Science Physical Science Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences

Padma Shri awards

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 109530985 LCCN: n80114251 BNF: cb12409668k (data)

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