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{{Infobox scientist<br />
| name = Subir Kumar Ghosh<br />
| image = Subir Kumar Ghosh.jpg<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1932|3|1}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], India<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2008|10|30|1932|3|1}}<br />
| death_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India<br />
| residence = <br />
| fields = {{ublist | [[Structural geology]] }}<br />
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Calcutta University]] | [[Jadavpur University]] }}<br />
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Calcutta University]] | [[Presidency College, Kolkata]] | [[Uppsala University]] }}<br />
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist| Santosh Kumar Roy }}<br />
| doctoral_students = <br />
| known_for = Studies on theoretical and experimental structural geology<br />
| awards = {{ublist | 1977&nbsp;[[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 1998&nbsp;[[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] K. Naha Memorial Medal }}<br />
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'''Subir Kumar Ghosh''' (1 March 1932 – 30 October 2008) was an Indian structural geologist and an emeritus professor at [[Jadavpur University]].<ref name="Subir Kumar Ghosh (1932-2008)">{{Cite web |url=http://www.geosocindia.org/index.php/jgsi/article/download/58933/46121 |title=Subir Kumar Ghosh (1932-2008) |date=2016 |publisher=Geological Survey of India |work=Obituary}}</ref> He was known for his studies on theoretical and experimental structural geology<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=462 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and was an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]],<ref name="Deceased fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/N79-0277 |title=Deceased 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/Ghosh,_Prof._Subir_Kumar |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 1977.<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 | access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
[[File:Jadavpur University Collage.jpg|thumb|235px|left|Jadavpur University]]<br />
Born on 1 March 1932 in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]], S. K. Ghosh graduated in science (BSc) from [[University of Kolkata]] and after completing a master's degree from the same institution, he joined his alma mater as a member of the faculty of geology in 1958.<ref name="Deceased fellow" /> Simultaneously, enrolled at [[Presidency College, Kolkata]] for his doctoral studies under the guidance of Santosh Kumar Ray and secured a PhD working on the time-correlation of the structural and metamorphic histories of the terrain in Kuilapal village in [[Purulia District]].<ref name="Subir Kumar Ghosh (1932-2008)" /> Subsequently, he moved to [[Uppsala University]] where he worked under [[Hans Ramberg]], a renowned geologist who would later lend his name to [[Rambergite]] mineral.<ref name="R Mineral Index">{{Cite web |url=http://webmineral.com/AtoZ/index.php?st=1&init=R#.WE0Uzfl97IU |title=R Mineral Index |date=2016 |publisher=Mineral News}}</ref> He stayed with Ramberg for two years at the end of which period he received the degree of Filosofisk doktorgrad from Uppsala University in 1967 and returned to join [[Jadavpur University]] where he set up an experimental laboratory to continue his researches. He served the university till his superannuation in 1997 but continued his association post-retirement as an emeritus professor, an INSA senior scientist, and as an INSA honorary scientist. During this period, he also had a short stint in Sweden as a research associate for the Swedish National Programme for the Geodynamics Project.<ref name="Deceased fellow" /><br />
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Dr. Ghosh was married to Sheila Ghosh née Sen and the couple's son [[Abhik Ghosh]] is a noted chemist.<ref name="Subir Kumar Ghosh (1932-2008)" /> He died on 30 October 2008, at the age of 76.<ref name="Fellow profile" /><br />
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== Legacy ==<br />
[[File:Boudinage.jpg|thumb|Boudinage]]<br />
Focusing his attention on the theoretical and experimental aspects of structural geology, Ghosh studied the ''geometrical relationships of the axial surfaces of folds with the principal planes of deformation''<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> and his researches assisted in the wider understanding of the geological phenomena such as [[Fold (geology)#Buckling|superposed buckle folding]], buckling due to constructional deformation, rotation of spherical and ellipsoidal inclusions in shear zones, deformation of early lineations, [[Boudinage|chocolate tablet boudinage]] and evolution of shear zone structures.<ref name="Subir Kumar Ghosh (1932-2008)" /> A theory on conglomerate deformation and an analysis of the mechanism of distortion of planar structure around rigid bodies have been credited to him. His researches have been documented as a book, ''Structural Geology: Fundamentals and Modern Developments,''<ref name="Ghosh2013">{{cite book|author=S.K. Ghosh|title=Structural Geology: Fundamentals and Modern Developments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWtFVD8EnRcC|date=24 October 2013|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-08-098399-8}}</ref> as chapters in books edited by others<ref name="RambergKoyi2001">{{cite book|author1=Hans Ramberg|author2=Hemin A. Koyi|author3=Neil S. Mancktelow|title=Tectonic Modeling: A Volume in Honor of Hans Ramberg|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kxlHAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|year=2001|publisher=Geological Society of America|isbn=978-0-8137-1193-5|pages=1–}}</ref><ref name="Sengupta2012">{{cite book|author=S. Sengupta|title=Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-scales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-sl9CAAAQBAJ|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-011-5870-1}}</ref> and as over 50 peer-reviewed articles,{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} the article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed a number of them.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Ghosh=3AProf=2E_Subir_Kumar=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> He also published a field guide for field research in [[Ghatsila]].<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Subir Kumar Ghosh |author2=Sanjib Chandra Sarkar |author3=Sudipta Sengupta |title=A field guide for Ghatsila and neighbouring mineral-belt |publisher=Jadavpur University |publication-date=1987 |issue=a |page=87}}</ref> He served as a National professor of the [[University Grants Commission of India]] during 1979–80 and sat in the editorial boards of the [[Journal of Structural Geology]] of [[Oxford University Press]] and [[Tectonophysics]] of [[Elsevier]], besides mentoring thirteen doctoral scholars in their studies.<ref name="Deceased fellow" /><br />
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== Awards and honors ==<br />
The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded Ghosh the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1977.<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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200915/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |archive-date=2016-03-03 }}</ref> The Indian National Science Academy elected him as their fellow in 1979, INSA would honor him again in 1998 with K. Naha Memorial Medal.<ref name="Professor K. Naha Memorial Medal">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.res.in/recipients.php#pkn | title=Professor K. Naha Memorial Medal | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2016 }}</ref> The same year, the Indian Academy of Sciences also elected him as a fellow.<ref name="Fellow profile" /> ''Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-scales'',<ref name="Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-scales">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-sl9CAAAQBAJ |title=Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-scales |last=S. Sengupta |date=6 December 2012 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-94-011-5870-1}}</ref> edited by [[Sudipta Sengupta]] and published by [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]] in 1997 is a [[festschrift]] on Ghosh and [[Kshitindramohan Naha]], another noted geologist.<ref name="Sengupta2012-2">{{cite book|author=S. Sengupta|title=Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-scales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-sl9CAAAQBAJ&pg=PT18|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-011-5870-1|pages=18–}}</ref><br />
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== Selected bibliography ==<br />
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=== Books ===<br />
* {{cite book|author=S.K. Ghosh|title=Structural Geology: Fundamentals and Modern Developments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWtFVD8EnRcC|date=24 October 2013|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-08-098399-8}}<br />
* {{Cite book |author1=Subir Kumar Ghosh |author2=Sanjib Chandra Sarkar |author3=Sudipta Sengupta |title=A field guide for Ghatsila and neighbouring mineral-belt |publisher=Jadavpur University |publication-date=1987 |issue=a |page=87}}<br />
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=== Chapters ===<br />
* {{cite book|author1=Hans Ramberg|author2=Hemin A. Koyi|author3=Neil S. Mancktelow|title=Tectonic Modeling: A Volume in Honor of Hans Ramberg|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kxlHAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|year=2001|publisher=Geological Society of America|isbn=978-0-8137-1193-5|pages=1–}}<br />
* {{cite book|author=S. Sengupta|title=Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-scales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-sl9CAAAQBAJ|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-011-5870-1}}<br />
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=== Articles ===<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Kshitindramohan Naha, Subir Kumar Ghosh |title=Archaean Palaeogeography of Eastern and Northern Singhbhum, Eastern India |journal=Geological Magazine |year=1960 |publication-date=October 1960 |volume=97 |issue=5 |pages=436–439 |doi=10.1017/S0016756800061781|bibcode=1960GeoM...97..436N |s2cid=140183934 }}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Subir Kumar Ghosh |title=A theoretical study of intersecting fold patterns |journal= Tectonophysics|year=1970 |publication-date=June 1970 |volume=9 |issue=6 |pages=559–569 |doi=10.1016/0040-1951(70)90006-5|bibcode=1970Tectp...9..559G }}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Subir Kumar Ghosh |title=Types of transpressional and transtensional deformation |journal=GSA Memoirs |year=2001 |publication-date=April 2000 |volume=193 |pages=1–20 |doi=10.1130/0-8137-1193-2.1|isbn=9780813711935 }}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Kshitindramohan Naha]]<br />
* [[Abhik Ghosh]]<br />
* [[Hans Ramberg]]<br />
* [[Sudipta Sengupta]]<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{Cite journal |last=Dhruba Mukhopadhyay |title=Mihir Kumar Bose (1933-2009) |journal=Journal of Geological Survey of India |publication-date=July 2010 |volume=76 |issue=1 |page=95- |url=http://www.geosocindia.org/index.php/jgsi/article/view/58496}}<br />
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