Nationality India Fields Geophysics Name Devendra Lal | Spouse Aruna Lal (nee Damany) Thesis 1960 | |
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Born 14 February 1929Varanasi, India ( 1929-02-14 ) Institutions TIFRDirector, Physical Research LaboratoryScripps Institution of Oceanography Notable awards Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, 1967Krishnan Medal, Indian Geophysical Union, 1965Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, 1972Fellow, FRS, 1979Fellow, Meteoritical Society, 1970Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, 1975V.M. Goldschmidt Medal, Geochemical Society, 1997Padma Shri, 1971 Institution Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Physical Research Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography | ||
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Devendra Lal FRS (14 February 1929 – 1 December 2012) was an Indian geophysicist.
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Life
He was born in Varanasi, India. He graduated from Banaras Hindu University. He graduated from Bombay University; 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, from 1989 to 2012.
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