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	'''Rishi Narain Singh''' (born 1943) is an Indian geophysicist and an ~~Emeritus~~ Professor of the [[National Geophysical Research Institute]], Hyderabad.<ref name="Emeritus Professor">{{Cite web \|url=http://dbls.ahduni.edu.in/ngg_tag/professor-rishi-narain-singh/ \|title=Emeritus Professor \|date=2016 \|publisher=Ahmedabad University}}</ref> He is known for his researches on the quantification of geological processes<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web \|url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=60 \|title=Brief Profile of the Awardee \|date=2016 \|publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize \|access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and is an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]]<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web \|url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=N91-1083 \|title=Indian fellow \|date=2016 \|publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Singh,_Dr_Rishi_Narain \|title=Fellow profile \|date=2016 \|publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences \|access-date=12 November 2016}}</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 1985.<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>		'''Rishi Narain Singh''' (born 1943) is an Indian geophysicist and an emeritus Professor of the [[National Geophysical Research Institute]], Hyderabad.<ref name="Emeritus Professor">{{Cite web \|url=http://dbls.ahduni.edu.in/ngg_tag/professor-rishi-narain-singh/ \|title=Emeritus Professor \|date=2016 \|publisher=Ahmedabad University}}</ref> He is known for his researches on the quantification of geological processes<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web \|url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=60 \|title=Brief Profile of the Awardee \|date=2016 \|publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize \|access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and is an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]]<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web \|url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=N91-1083 \|title=Indian fellow \|date=2016 \|publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web \|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Singh,_Dr_Rishi_Narain \|title=Fellow profile \|date=2016 \|publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences \|access-date=12 November 2016}}</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 1985.<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>

	== Biography ==		== Biography ==
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	== Legacy ==		== Legacy ==
	The prime focus of Singh's researches were on designing methodologies for the quantification of geological processes.<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}}</ref> During his days at NEERI, he worked on introducing mathematical modeling for use in developing environmental technologies and evolved models of several geophysical and environmental processes such as the models of heat conduction processes in stratified crust, linear surface heat flow and surface heat generation using Thomson-Haskell matrix method which helped in quantifying the lithospheric geodynamics.<ref name="Dr. Rishi Narain Singh" /> The [[Cuddapah]] basin, south Indian high grade metamorphic terrains, [[Eighty Five East Ridge\|Afanasi Nikitin seamount]], [[Carlsberg Ridge]], and fracture zones in the Indian Oceanic lithosphere are some of the other models developed by him. He is credited with using [[Rheology\|rheological laws]] of rock forming minerals for the first time in India which he used for profiling the Indian continental lithosphere.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> His studies have been detailed in over 150 peer reviewed articles;<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web \|url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Singh=3ARishi_Narain=3A=3A.html \|title=Browse by Fellow \|date=2016 \|publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref>{{Refn\|group=note\|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} [[ResearchGate]], an online article repository has listed 110 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rishi_Singh7 \|title=ResearchGate \|date=2016 }}</ref> Besides, he co-edited a text, ''Magmatic and Allied Processes'',<ref name="KumarSingh2014">{{cite book\|author1=Santosh Kumar\|author2=Rishi Narain Singh\|title=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zUqBAAAQBAJ\|date=13 June 2014\|publisher=Springer\|isbn=978-3-319-06471-0}}</ref> which contains three chapters written by him.<ref>{{Cite book \|last=R. N. Singh, A. Manglik \|chapter=Parameterized Mantle Convection Analysis for Crustal ~~Processes \|journal=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied~~ Processes \|date=June 2014 \|pages=75–88 \|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-06471-0_4 \|series = Society of Earth Scientists Series\|isbn = 978-3-319-06470-3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book \|last=R. N. Singh, Jibamitra Ganguly \|chapter=Modelling Paleogeotherms in the Continental Lithosphere: A Brief Review and Applications to Problems in the Indian Subcontinent ~~\|journal=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes~~ \|date=June 2014 \|pages=89–108 \|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-06471-0_5 \|series = Society of Earth Scientists Series\|isbn = 978-3-319-06470-3}}</ref>		The prime focus of Singh's researches were on designing methodologies for the quantification of geological processes.<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}}</ref> During his days at NEERI, he worked on introducing mathematical modeling for use in developing environmental technologies and evolved models of several geophysical and environmental processes such as the models of heat conduction processes in stratified crust, linear surface heat flow and surface heat generation using Thomson-Haskell matrix method which helped in quantifying the lithospheric geodynamics.<ref name="Dr. Rishi Narain Singh" /> The [[Cuddapah]] basin, south Indian high grade metamorphic terrains, [[Eighty Five East Ridge\|Afanasi Nikitin seamount]], [[Carlsberg Ridge]], and fracture zones in the Indian Oceanic lithosphere are some of the other models developed by him. He is credited with using [[Rheology\|rheological laws]] of rock forming minerals for the first time in India which he used for profiling the Indian continental lithosphere.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> His studies have been detailed in over 150 peer-reviewed articles;<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web \|url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Singh=3ARishi_Narain=3A=3A.html \|title=Browse by Fellow \|date=2016 \|publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref>{{Refn\|group=note\|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} [[ResearchGate]], an online article repository has listed 110 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rishi_Singh7 \|title=ResearchGate \|date=2016 }}</ref> Besides, he co-edited a text, ''Magmatic and Allied Processes'',<ref name="KumarSingh2014">{{cite book\|author1=Santosh Kumar\|author2=Rishi Narain Singh\|title=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zUqBAAAQBAJ\|date=13 June 2014\|publisher=Springer\|isbn=978-3-319-06471-0}}</ref> which contains three chapters written by him.<ref>{{Cite book \|last=R. N. Singh, A. Manglik \|title=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes \|chapter=Parameterized Mantle Convection Analysis for Crustal Processes \|date=June 2014 \|pages=75–88 \|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-06471-0_4 \|series = Society of Earth Scientists Series\|isbn = 978-3-319-06470-3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book \|last=R. N. Singh, Jibamitra Ganguly \|title=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes \|chapter=Modelling Paleogeotherms in the Continental Lithosphere: A Brief Review and Applications to Problems in the Indian Subcontinent \|date=June 2014 \|pages=89–108 \|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-06471-0_5 \|series = Society of Earth Scientists Series\|isbn = 978-3-319-06470-3}}</ref>

	Singh delivered a series of lectures in the 1970s propagating the inverse theory in geophysics and was involved in the coordination of more than one hundred environmental impact and risk assessment reports.<ref name="Dr. Rishi Narain Singh" /> He was involved in the development of [[CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation]] during his early years and sat in the editorial boards of the Journal of Earth System Sciences of Indian Academy of Sciences and Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy (Physical Sciences). He was also a member of the council of the Indian National Science Academy during 2000-02 and was the guide for nine scholars in their doctoral studies.<ref name="Indian fellow" />		Singh delivered a series of lectures in the 1970s propagating the inverse theory in geophysics and was involved in the coordination of more than one hundred environmental impact and risk assessment reports.<ref name="Dr. Rishi Narain Singh" /> He was involved in the development of [[CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation]] during his early years and sat in the editorial boards of the Journal of Earth System Sciences of Indian Academy of Sciences and Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy (Physical Sciences). He was also a member of the council of the Indian National Science Academy during 2000-02 and was the guide for nine scholars in their doctoral studies.<ref name="Indian fellow" />
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	=== Chapters ===		=== Chapters ===
	* {{Cite ~~journal~~ \|last=R. N. Singh, A. Manglik \|~~title~~=Parameterized Mantle Convection Analysis for Crustal Processes \|~~journal~~=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes \|date=June 2014 \|pages=75–88 }}		* {{Cite book \|last=R. N. Singh, A. Manglik \|chapter=Parameterized Mantle Convection Analysis for Crustal Processes \|title=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes \|series=Society of Earth Scientists Series \|date=June 2014 \|pages=75–88 \|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-06471-0_4 \|isbn=978-3-319-06470-3 }}
	* {{Cite ~~journal~~ \|last=R. N. Singh, Jibamitra Ganguly \|~~title~~=Modelling Paleogeotherms in the Continental Lithosphere: A Brief Review and Applications to Problems in the Indian Subcontinent \|~~journal~~=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes \|date=June 2014 \|pages=89–108 }}		* {{Cite book \|last=R. N. Singh, Jibamitra Ganguly \|chapter=Modelling Paleogeotherms in the Continental Lithosphere: A Brief Review and Applications to Problems in the Indian Subcontinent \|title=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes \|series=Society of Earth Scientists Series \|date=June 2014 \|pages=89–108 \|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-06471-0_5 \|isbn=978-3-319-06470-3 }}

	=== Articles ===		=== Articles ===
	* {{Cite journal \|author1=Verma, Saurabh K. \|author2=Singh, Rishi Narain \|title=Transient electromagnetic response of an inhomogeneous conducting sphere \|journal=Geophysics \|date=1970 \|volume=35 \|issue=2 \|pages=331–336 \|doi=10.1190/1.1440095}}		* {{Cite journal \|author1=Verma, Saurabh K. \|author2=Singh, Rishi Narain \|title=Transient electromagnetic response of an inhomogeneous conducting sphere \|journal=Geophysics \|date=1970 \|volume=35 \|issue=2 \|pages=331–336 \|doi=10.1190/1.1440095\|bibcode=1970Geop...35..331V }}
	* {{Cite journal \|last=Singh, Rishi Narain \|title=Propagator matrix formulation for earth currents of deep internal origin \|journal=Pure and Applied Geophysics \|date=1973 \|volume=105 \|issue=1 \|pages=858–863 \|doi=10.1007/BF00875834\|s2cid=121784682 }}		* {{Cite journal \|last=Singh, Rishi Narain \|title=Propagator matrix formulation for earth currents of deep internal origin \|journal=Pure and Applied Geophysics \|date=1973 \|volume=105 \|issue=1 \|pages=858–863 \|doi=10.1007/BF00875834\|bibcode=1973PApGe.105..858S \|s2cid=121784682 }}
	* {{Cite journal \|last=Singh, Rishi Narain \|title=A method of the calculation of the mantle-electrical conductivity by the inversion of the geomagnetic secular variation data \|journal=Pure and Applied Geophysics \|date=1974 \|volume=112 \|issue=1 \|pages=149–152 \|doi=10.1007/BF00875929\|s2cid=122013990 }}		* {{Cite journal \|last=Singh, Rishi Narain \|title=A method of the calculation of the mantle-electrical conductivity by the inversion of the geomagnetic secular variation data \|journal=Pure and Applied Geophysics \|date=1974 \|volume=112 \|issue=1 \|pages=149–152 \|doi=10.1007/BF00875929\|bibcode=1974PApGe.112..149S \|s2cid=122013990 }}
	* {{Cite journal \|author1=Singh, Rishi Narain \|author2=Negi, Janardan G. \|title=A reinterpretation of the linear heat flow and heat production relationship for the exponential model of the heat production in the crust \|journal=Geophysical Journal International \|date=1979 \|volume=57 \|issue=3 \|pages=741–74 \|doi=10.1111/j.1365-246X.1979.tb06787.x\|doi-access=free }}		* {{Cite journal \|author1=Singh, Rishi Narain \|author2=Negi, Janardan G. \|title=A reinterpretation of the linear heat flow and heat production relationship for the exponential model of the heat production in the crust \|journal=Geophysical Journal International \|date=1979 \|volume=57 \|issue=3 \|pages=741–74 \|doi=10.1111/j.1365-246X.1979.tb06787.x\|bibcode=1979GeoJ...57..741S \|doi-access=free }}
	* {{Cite journal \|author1=Rai, Shivendra Nath \|author2=Singh, Rishi Narain \|title=A mathematical model of water table fluctuation in a semi-infinite aquifer induced by localized transient recharge \|journal=Water Resources Research \|date=1981 \|volume=17 \|issue=4 \|pages=1028–1032 \|doi=10.1029/WR017i004p01028}}		* {{Cite journal \|author1=Rai, Shivendra Nath \|author2=Singh, Rishi Narain \|title=A mathematical model of water table fluctuation in a semi-infinite aquifer induced by localized transient recharge \|journal=Water Resources Research \|date=1981 \|volume=17 \|issue=4 \|pages=1028–1032 \|doi=10.1029/WR017i004p01028\|bibcode=1981WRR....17.1028R }}

	== See also ==		== See also ==
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'''Rishi Narain Singh''' (born 1943) is an Indian geophysicist and an Emeritus Professor of the [[National Geophysical Research Institute]], Hyderabad.<ref name="Emeritus Professor">{{Cite web |url=http://dbls.ahduni.edu.in/ngg_tag/professor-rishi-narain-singh/ |title=Emeritus Professor |date=2016 |publisher=Ahmedabad University}}</ref> He is known for his researches on the quantification of geological processes<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=60 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and is an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]]<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=N91-1083 |title=Indian fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Singh,_Dr_Rishi_Narain |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=12 November 2016}}</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 1985.<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>

== Biography ==
[[File:Central Library BHU.jpg|thumb|235px|Banaras Hindu University]]
R. N. Singh, born on 17 July 1943 in Bajha, a small village in the [[Mirzapur district]] of the Indian state of [[Uttar Pradesh]] to a school teacher, did his early schooling at local village schools.<ref name="Dr. Rishi Narain Singh">{{Cite web |url=http://moes.gov.in/writereaddata/files/National_award_RNSINGH-%202014-4.pdf |title=Dr. Rishi Narain Singh |date=2016 |publisher=Ministry f Earth Sciences}}</ref> His graduate degree in science came from [[Banaras Hindu University]] in 1962 after which he continued at the university to obtain a master's degree in 1964 and a doctoral degree in 1969, both in geophysics.<ref name="R. N. Singh - Profile">{{Cite web |url=https://www.iitgn.ac.in/iitgn_new/sites/default/files/R-N-Singh-IITGN-cv.pdf |title=R. N. Singh - Profile |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Gandhinagar}}</ref> Subsequently, he joined [[National Geophysical Research Institute]] of the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] in 1964 and served the institute for the rest of his career, barring three stints outside on deputation. While at NGRI, he took a hiatus and did his post-doctoral research at [[Dalhousie University]] and [[Memorial University of Newfoundland]] during 1970–73. Back at NGRI, he continued his service when he was sent to the [[Indian Institute of Geomagnetism]] in 1977 as an assistant professor where he worked for one year. In 1996, he was deputed to Fourth Paradigm Institute, then known as the [[CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation]], as the scientist-in-charge and in 1999, he was shifted to [[National Environmental Engineering Research Institute]] as its director. He returned to NGRI in 2003 and served out his service there to superannuate in 2005. Post-retirement, he continued his association with the institute as an CSIR Emeritus Scientist during 2005–10 and as an [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Senior Scientist during 2010–15.<ref name="R. N. Singh - Profile" /> Since then, he serves as an honorary professor at [[Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research]] of NGIR<ref name="Dr. Rishi Narain Singh" /> and as a visiting professor at [[IIT Gandhinagar]].<ref name="R. N. Singh - Profile" />

== Legacy ==
The prime focus of Singh's researches were on designing methodologies for the quantification of geological processes.<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}}</ref> During his days at NEERI, he worked on introducing mathematical modeling for use in developing environmental technologies and evolved models of several geophysical and environmental processes such as the models of heat conduction processes in stratified crust, linear surface heat flow and surface heat generation using Thomson-Haskell matrix method which helped in quantifying the lithospheric geodynamics.<ref name="Dr. Rishi Narain Singh" /> The [[Cuddapah]] basin, south Indian high grade metamorphic terrains, [[Eighty Five East Ridge|Afanasi Nikitin seamount]], [[Carlsberg Ridge]], and fracture zones in the Indian Oceanic lithosphere are some of the other models developed by him. He is credited with using [[Rheology|rheological laws]] of rock forming minerals for the first time in India which he used for profiling the Indian continental lithosphere.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> His studies have been detailed in over 150 peer reviewed articles;<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Singh=3ARishi_Narain=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} [[ResearchGate]], an online article repository has listed 110 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rishi_Singh7 |title=ResearchGate |date=2016 }}</ref> Besides, he co-edited a text, ''Magmatic and Allied Processes'',<ref name="KumarSingh2014">{{cite book|author1=Santosh Kumar|author2=Rishi Narain Singh|title=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zUqBAAAQBAJ|date=13 June 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-06471-0}}</ref> which contains three chapters written by him.<ref>{{Cite book |last=R. N. Singh, A. Manglik |chapter=Parameterized Mantle Convection Analysis for Crustal Processes |journal=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes |date=June 2014 |pages=75–88 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-06471-0_4 |series = Society of Earth Scientists Series|isbn = 978-3-319-06470-3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=R. N. Singh, Jibamitra Ganguly |chapter=Modelling Paleogeotherms in the Continental Lithosphere: A Brief Review and Applications to Problems in the Indian Subcontinent |journal=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes |date=June 2014 |pages=89–108 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-06471-0_5 |series = Society of Earth Scientists Series|isbn = 978-3-319-06470-3}}</ref>

Singh delivered a series of lectures in the 1970s propagating the inverse theory in geophysics and was involved in the coordination of more than one hundred environmental impact and risk assessment reports.<ref name="Dr. Rishi Narain Singh" /> He was involved in the development of [[CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation]] during his early years and sat in the editorial boards of the Journal of Earth System Sciences of Indian Academy of Sciences and Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy (Physical Sciences). He was also a member of the council of the Indian National Science Academy during 2000-02 and was the guide for nine scholars in their doctoral studies.<ref name="Indian fellow" />

== Awards and honors ==
The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded Singh the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1985.<ref name="Earth Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |title=Earth Sciences |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200915/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |archivedate=3 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> The [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] elected him as a fellow in 1988<ref name="Fellow profile" /> and the Indian National Science Academy followed suit in 1991.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> He received the Decennial Award of the [[Indian Geophysical Union]] in 2004.<ref name="Decennial Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.igu.in/awards.htm |title=Decennial Award |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Geophysical Union}}</ref> The [[Ministry of Earth Sciences]] awarded him the National Award in Geoscience and Technology in 2014.<ref name="National Award in Geoscience and Technology">{{Cite web |url=http://www.moes.gov.in/content/dr-rishi-narain-singh |title=National Award in Geoscience and Technology |date=2016 |publisher=Ministry of Earth Sciences}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==

=== Books ===
* {{cite book|author1=Santosh Kumar|author2=Rishi Narain Singh|title=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes|date=13 June 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-06471-0}}

=== Chapters ===
* {{Cite journal |last=R. N. Singh, A. Manglik |title=Parameterized Mantle Convection Analysis for Crustal Processes |journal=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes |date=June 2014 |pages=75–88 }}
* {{Cite journal |last=R. N. Singh, Jibamitra Ganguly |title=Modelling Paleogeotherms in the Continental Lithosphere: A Brief Review and Applications to Problems in the Indian Subcontinent |journal=Modelling of Magmatic and Allied Processes |date=June 2014 |pages=89–108 }}

=== Articles ===
* {{Cite journal |author1=Verma, Saurabh K. |author2=Singh, Rishi Narain |title=Transient electromagnetic response of an inhomogeneous conducting sphere |journal=Geophysics |date=1970 |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=331–336 |doi=10.1190/1.1440095}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Singh, Rishi Narain |title=Propagator matrix formulation for earth currents of deep internal origin |journal=Pure and Applied Geophysics |date=1973 |volume=105 |issue=1 |pages=858–863 |doi=10.1007/BF00875834|s2cid=121784682 }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Singh, Rishi Narain |title=A method of the calculation of the mantle-electrical conductivity by the inversion of the geomagnetic secular variation data |journal=Pure and Applied Geophysics |date=1974 |volume=112 |issue=1 |pages=149–152 |doi=10.1007/BF00875929|s2cid=122013990 }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Singh, Rishi Narain |author2=Negi, Janardan G. |title=A reinterpretation of the linear heat flow and heat production relationship for the exponential model of the heat production in the crust |journal=Geophysical Journal International |date=1979 |volume=57 |issue=3 |pages=741–74 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-246X.1979.tb06787.x|doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Rai, Shivendra Nath |author2=Singh, Rishi Narain |title=A mathematical model of water table fluctuation in a semi-infinite aquifer induced by localized transient recharge |journal=Water Resources Research |date=1981 |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=1028–1032 |doi=10.1029/WR017i004p01028}}

== See also ==
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* [[Carlsberg Ridge]]
* [[Eighty Five East Ridge]]
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://dbls.ahduni.edu.in/about-us/distinguished-visitors/ |title=Distinguished Visitors |date=2016 |publisher=Ahmedabad University}}

{{SSBPST recipients in Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences}}

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[[Category:Banaras Hindu University alumni]]
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[[Category:20th-century Indian earth scientists]]