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{{short description|Indian geophysicist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Pramod Sadasheo Moharir
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1943|4|21}}
| birth_place = [[Nagpur]], India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2003|1|14|1943|4|21}}
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| fields = {{ublist | [[Geophysics]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[BITS, Pilani]] | [[IIT Roorkee]] | [[IIT Mumbai]] | [[Indian Institute of Science]] | [[National Geophysical Research Institute]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[IIT Bombay]] | [[IIT Kanpur]] }}
| doctoral_advisor =
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| known_for = Studies on geophysical signal processing
| awards = {{ublist | 1987 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] }}
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'''Pramod Sadasheo Moharir''' (21 April 1943 – 14 January 2003) was an Indian [[geophysicist]] and a former senior scientist at the [[National Geophysical Research Institute]].<ref name="Dimri2000">{{cite book|author=V.P. Dimri|title=Application of Fractals in Earth Sciences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QpMrOD06OwoC&pg=PR9|date=1 January 2000|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-90-5410-284-7|pages=9–}}</ref> He was known for his studies on geophysical [[signal processing]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=340 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref>

==Biography==
Born on 21 April 1943, he obtained an MTech from the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai]] in 1966 and after securing a PhD from the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] in 1971 under the guidance of Kalluri Ramalinga Sarma,<ref name="Batch of 1971">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/ee/alumni/alumni.php?yop=1971 |title=Batch of 1971 |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Kanpur}}</ref> he started his career as a lecturer at [[Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani]] but moved to the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee]] in 1972.<ref name="Pramod Sadasheo Moharir (1943–2003)">{{Cite journal |last=V. P. Dimri |title=Pramod Sadasheo Moharir (1943–2003) |url=http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/apr102003/943.pdf |journal=Current Science |publication-date=April 2003 |volume=84 |issue=7 |access-date=19 December 2016 |archive-date=17 December 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041217222046/http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/apr102003/943.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> His stay at IIT Roorkee was short-lived and the same year, he joined the [[Indian Institute of Science]] where he served as a lecturer till 1976 when he was appointed as an assistant professor at IIT Mumbai. After one year, he returned to IIT Roorkee and served the institute as a reader and professor until 1989. His next move was to the [[National Geophysical Research Institute]] as a visiting scientist but became a senior scientist in 1992 and served there till his death on 14 January 2003 succumbing to a brain haemorrhage, at the age of 59.<ref name="Pramod Sadasheo Moharir (1943–2003)" />

Moharir's researches were focused on the resolving the problems of modelling of earthquake sequences as well as on designing numerical algorithms for earth system models.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=19 December 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He was the author of a book on the subject titled, ''Pattern Recognition Transforms''.<ref name="Moharir1992">{{cite book|author=Pramod Sadasheo Moharir|title=Pattern-Recognition Transforms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TIdQAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Research Studies Press|isbn=978-0-86380-137-2}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences in 1987.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=12 November 2016}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite book |url=http://library.sharif.ir/parvan/resource/299363/pattern-recognition-transforms |title=Pattern-recognition transforms |last=Pramod Sadasheo Moharir |date=1992 |publisher=Research Studies Press |location=Taunton, England |pages=272|isbn=9780863801372 }}

{{SSBPST recipients in Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences}}
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[[Category:20th-century Indian earth scientists]]
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