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{{short description|Indian seismologist (born 1936)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1936|7|11}}
| birth_place = [[Varanasi]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India
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| residence = [[Bengaluru]], [[Karnataka]], India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Seismology]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)|National Physical Laboratory]] [[Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee]] | [[National Geophysical Research Institute]] | [[Indian Institute of Astrophysics]] | [[CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation|CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute]] }}
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| known_for = Studies on the [[tectonics]] of the [[Himalayas]]
| awards = {{ublist | 1971 [[Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee|IITR]] Khosla Research Award | 1979 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 1979 [[Indian Geophysical Union|IGU]] Krishnan Medal | 1996 [[Ministry of Mines (India)|MoM]] Award of Excellence | 2000 [[American Geophysical Union|AGU]] Edward A. Flinn III Award | 2006 [[Indian Science Congress|ISC]] Meghnad Saha Birth Centenary Medal | 2007 [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] D. N. Wadia Medal }}
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'''Vinod Kumar Gaur''' (born 1936) is an Indian [[seismologist]],a former director of the [[National Geophysical Research Institute]] and an honorary emeritus scientist at [[CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation|CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute]],<ref name="CMMACS directory">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/aboutcsir/lab_phone/2006%23%23%23%23/dir-2008/2006/cmmacs.pdf |title=CMMACS directory |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research}}</ref> known for his prediction of the [[April 2015 Nepal earthquake]].<ref name="GoldsteinTaylor2015">{{cite book|author1=Jack Goldstein|author2=Frankie Taylor|title=101 Amazing Facts about Natural Disasters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ruk_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT33|date=21 July 2015|publisher=Andrews UK Limited|isbn=978-1-78538-210-9|pages=33–}}</ref> He is reported to have conducted extensive studies on the [[tectonics]] of the [[Himalayas]]<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=458 |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 [[National Academy of Sciences, India]],<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |title=NASI fellows |date=2016 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India}}</ref> [[The World Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="TWAS fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://twas.org/member/gaur-vinod-k |title=TWAS fellow |date=2016 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences}}</ref> [[Indian Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Gaur,_Prof._Vinod_Kumar |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and the [[Indian National Science Academy]].<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=N80-0256 |title=Indian fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</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 1979.<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>

== Biography ==
[[File:BHU Main Gate, Banaras Hindu University.jpg|thumb|left|235px|Banaras Hindu University]]
V. K. Gaur, born on 11 July 1936 in [[Varanasi]], a temple town in the Indian state of [[Uttar Pradesh]], completed his master's degree at [[Banaras Hindu University]] with gold medal in 1955 and proceeded to the UK for his doctoral studies at [[Imperial College, London]].<ref name="Gaur on CSIR Forth Paradigm">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cmmacs.ernet.in/~gaur/ |title=Gaur on CSIR Forth Paradigm |date=2016 |publisher=CSIR Forth Paradigm}}</ref> After securing a PhD from the [[University of London]] in 1959, he did his post-doctoral work at [[Paris-Sorbonne University]] and started his career by joining [[National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)]] as a scientific officer in 1960. A year later, he returned to India and joined University of Roorkee (present-day [[Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee]]) as a reader where he spent 21 years, serving as a professor and the dean of research from 1978 till he moved to [[National Geophysical Research Institute]] as the director in 1983.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> After a service of 6 years, the Government of India appointed him as the secretary to the Department of Ocean Development of the [[Ministry of Earth Sciences]], a post he held till 1992 when he joined CSIR Forth Paradigm (then known as [[CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation]]-CMMACS) as a Distinguished Professor. He served CMMACS till his superannuation in 1996, but continues to be associated with the institute as a [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research|CSIR]] Honorary Scientist.<ref name="Scientists downplay earthquake risks">{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/interview/scientists-downplay-earthquake-risks/article4670854.ece |title=Scientists downplay earthquake risks |last=Divya Gandhi |date=2016 |newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref> He also holds the position of a Distinguished Professor at the [[Indian Institute of Astrophysics]]. In between, he held the directorship of Deccan Gold Mines from 2006 to 2011.<ref name="Executive Profile">{{Cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=30464466&capId=13621236&previousCapId=13621236&previousTitle=DECCAN%20GOLD%20MINES%20LTD |title=Executive Profile |date=2016 |publisher=Bloomberg}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
[[File:Hanle observatory.jpg|thumb|235px|Indian Astronomical Observatory]]
One of the first contributions of Gaur to the science of geology came during his doctoral studies at Imperial College when he discovered the host rock effect in geo-electromagnetics, which had been unsuspected till then and this discovery assisted him in earning his PhD.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> His later studies covered the fields of [[geodesy]], [[seismology]] and [[electromagnetics]] and his studies on the tectonics of Himalayas assisted in estimating the plate under-thrusts and understanding the micro-earthquakes in the region.<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=14 December 2016 | archive-date=4 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref> He is credited with the discovery of the thick Deccan [[lithosphere]] which he accomplished using the seismic tomography experiments for the first time in India.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> He is reported to be the first scientist to use [[Global Positioning System]] Geodesy to measure the Indian plate velocity quantitatively in comparison to the Eurasian plate velocity and as well as the first to conduct an experiment to constrain global carbon fluxes in India and Central Asia through inversion of ultra-high precision atmospheric concentration data. His studies have been documented as several peer-reviewed articles,{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} the article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 61 of them.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Gaur=3AVinod_Kumar=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> On the infrastructure development front, his contributions are reported in the implementation of Marine Satellite and Ocean Information Services and in the establishment of a CO2 laboratory at [[Indian Astronomical Observatory]], Hanle.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> It was during his tenure as the professor, academic programs on signal analysis, inverse theory and computational geophysics were introduced at the University of Roorkee and the [[University Grants Commission of India]] subsequently extended the courses designed by him to other universities. His involvement is also known in the preparation of science texts for higher secondary studies of the [[Central Board of Secondary Education]]. He was one of the propagators of the ''Science to People'' programs and also sat in the councils of the Indian National Science Academy (1985–87 and 1994–96) and the Indian Academy of (Sciences 1992-97).<ref name="Fellow profile" />

== Awards and honors ==
Gaur, a recipient of doctorates ([[honoris causa]]) from [[Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad]], [[Andhra University]] and Banaras Hindu University,<ref name="APAS Fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://apas.org.in/images/pdf/elected-fellows-of-apas.pdf |title=APAS Fellows |date=2016 |publisher=Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences |access-date=14 December 2016 |archive-date=6 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806015556/http://apas.org.in/images/pdf/elected-fellows-of-apas.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> received the Khosla Research Award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 1971.<ref name="Gaur on CSIR Forth Paradigm" /> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1979.<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 |access-date=5 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200915/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> The Krishnan Medal of the Indian Geophysical Union reached him in 1996,<ref name="Krishnan Medal">{{Cite web |url=http://www.igu.in/awards.htm |title=Krishnan Medal |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Geophysical Union}}</ref> followed by the Award of Excellence of the [[Ministry of Mines (India)|Ministry of Mines]] in 1996 and the Edward A. Flinn III Award of the [[American Geophysical Union]] in 2000.<ref name="Edward A. Flinn III Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cmmacs.ernet.in/cmmacs/News_clips/profgaur.html |title=Edward A. Flinn III Award |date=2016 |publisher=CSIR Fourth Paradigm}}</ref> He is also a recipient of the Saha Birth Centenary Award of the [[Indian Science Congress Association]] and the D. N. Wadia Medal and the award orations he has delivered include the Guru Prasad Chatterjee Memorial Lecture of the Indian National Science Academy.<ref name="Guru Prasad Chatterjee Memorial Lecture">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/recipients.php#guru |title=Guru Prasad Chatterjee Memorial Lecture |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> The Indian National Science Academy also elected him as a fellow in 1980<ref name="Indian fellow" /> and the Indian Academy of Sciences followed suit five years later.<ref name="Fellow profile" /> He became an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India in 1988<ref name="NASI fellows" /> and The World Academy of Sciences in 2000.<ref name="TWAS fellow" /> He is also a fellow of the Indian Geophysical Union and Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences.<ref name="APAS Fellows" />

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{Cite journal |author1=Gaur, Vinod K. |author2=Priestley, Keith F. |title=Shear wave velocity structure beneath the Archaean granites around Hyderabad, inferred from receiver function analysis |journal=Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences - Earth and Planetary Sciences |publication-date=1997 |volume=106 |issue=1-2 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.1007/BF02841745}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Gaur, V. K. |title=Inverse modelling for parameter estimation and experiment design |journal=Sadhana (Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences) |publication-date=1999 |volume=24 |issue=1-2 |pages=73–96 |doi=10.1007/BF02747553}}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Bilham, Roger |author2=Gaur, Vinod K. |author3=Molnar, Peter |title=a |journal=Science |publication-date=2001 |volume=293 |issue=5534 |pages=1442–1444 |doi=10.1126/science.1062584}}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Jade, Sridevi |author2=Bhatt, B. C. |author3=Yang, Z. |author4=Bendick, R. |author5=Gaur, V. K. |author6=Molnar, P. |author7=Anand, M. B. |author8=Kumar, Dilip |title=GPS measurements from the ladakh himalaya, India: preliminary tests of plate-like or continuous deformation in tibet |journal=Geological Society of America Bulletin |publication-date=2004 |volume=116 |issue=11-12 |pages=1385–1391 |doi=10.1130/B25357.1}}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Niwas, Sri |author2=Gupta, P. K. |author3=Gaur, V. K. |title=Normalized impedance function and the straightforward inversion scheme for magnetotelluric data |journal=Journal of Earth System Science |publication-date=2005 |volume=114 |issue=5 |pages=523–531 |doi=10.1007/BF02702028}}

== See also ==
* [[April 2015 Nepal earthquake]]
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.rediff.com/chat/trans/0131guj1.htm |title=A few earthquakes in the Himalayan belt is possible |date=31 January 2001 |publisher=Rediff.com |location=Bangalore|work=Q and A session with Vinod Kumar Gaur}}

== Further reading ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/interview/scientists-downplay-earthquake-risks/article4670854.ece |title=Scientists downplay earthquake risks |last=Divya Gandhi |date=2016 |newspaper=The Hindu}} (Interview with Vinod Kumar Gaur)

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