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

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Life

He was born in

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. He graduated from

Banaras Hindu University Banaras Hindu University (BHU), formerly Benares Hindu University, is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916. The university incorporated the Central Hindu College, ...

. He graduated from

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; his thesis was on cosmic ray physics; his thesis adviser was

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. He was Director, of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad from 1972 to 1983. He was Visiting Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography,

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

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

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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