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

geophysicist Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term ''geophysics'' so ...

Life

He was born in Varanasi, India. He graduated from

Banaras Hindu University Banaras Hindu University (BHU) IAST: kāśī hindū viśvavidyālaya IPA: /kaːʃiː hɪnd̪uː ʋɪʃwəʋid̪jaːləj/), is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 191 ...

. He graduated from

Bombay University The University of Mumbai is a collegiate, state-owned, public research university in Mumbai. The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. Ratan Tata is the appointed ...

; his thesis was on cosmic ray physics; his thesis adviser was Bernard Peters. He was Director, of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad from 1972 to 1983. He was Visiting Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography,

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

, from 1989 to 2012. Devendra Lal was President of the

International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG; french: Union géodésique et géophysique internationale, UGGI) is an international non-governmental organization dedicated to the scientific study of Earth and its space environment usi ...

(IUGG) from 1983 to 1987. He was also elected Fellow of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, r ...

in 1979.

References

External links

*https://archive.today/20130628192705/http://paleowave.blogspot.com/2012/12/in-memoriam-devendra-lal-1929-2012.html
Devendra Lal Memorial Symposium, Part 1 Devendra Lal Memorial Symposium, Part 2
1929 births 2012 deaths Indian geophysicists Banaras Hindu University alumni University of California, San Diego faculty Fellows of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Scientists from Varanasi Fellows of the Indian Geophysical Union Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering 20th-century Indian physicists Presidents of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Recipients of the V. M. Goldschmidt Award {{geologist-stub