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Devendra Lal

Born	(1929-02-14)14 February 1929 Varanasi, India
Died	1 December 2012(2012-12-01) (aged 83) La Jolla, California, United States
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Banares Hindu University TIFR
Spouse(s)	Aruna Lal (née Damany)
Awards	Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, 1967 Krishnan Medal, Indian Geophysical Union, 1965 Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, 1972 Fellow, FRS, 1979 Fellow, Meteoritical Society, 1970 Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, 1975 V.M. Goldschmidt Medal, Geochemical Society, 1997 Padma Shri, 1971
Scientific career
Fields	Geophysics
Institutions	TIFR Director, Physical Research Laboratory Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Thesis	(1960)
Academic advisors	Bernard Peters

Devendra Lal FRS (14 February 1929 – 1 December 2012) was an Indian geophysicist.

Life

He was born in Varanasi, India.^[1] He graduated from Banaras Hindu University.^[2] He graduated from Bombay University; his thesis was on cosmic ray physics; his thesis adviser was Bernard Peters.^[3]

He was Director, of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad from 1972 to 1983.^[4]

He was Visiting Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, from 1989 to 2012.^[5]^[6] Devendra Lal was President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) from 1983 to 1987. He was also elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979.^[7]

References

↑ ":: SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHY NEWS : : Obituary Notice: Devendra Lal: 1929-2012 ::". scripps.ucsd.edu. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
↑ ":: Scripps Institution Of Oceanography, Ucsd : :::". Sio.ucsd.edu. 10 December 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
↑ "Devendra Lal (1929-2012)". www.geochemsoc.org. Geochemical Society. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
↑ "Geophysicist Devendra Lal Dead". India Journal. 15 December 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ "Devendra Lal, 1929-2012". The Meteoritical Society. 21 October 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
↑ Special Correspondent (8 December 2012). "Geophysicist Devendra Lal passes away". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 May 2013. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
↑ Goswami, J. N.; Macdougall, J. D. (2021). "Devendra Lal. 14 February 1929—1 December 2012". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 70.

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v t e Recipients of Padma Shri in Science & Engineering
1950s	Kshitish Ranjan Chakravorty (1954) Laxman Mahadeo Chitale (1957) Ram Prakash Gehlote (1957) Krishnaswami Ramiah (1957) Bal Raj Nijhawan (1958) Benjamin Peary Pal (1958) Navalpakkam Parthasarthy (1958) Surendranath Kar (1959) Om Prakash Mathur (1959) Homi Sethna (1959)
1960s	Anil Kumar Das (1960) A. S. Rao (1960) M. G. K. Menon (1961) Brahm Prakash (1961) Man Mohan Suri (1961) Paramananda Acharya (1964) Vishnu Madav Ghatage (1965) Satish Dhawan (1966) Maganbhai Ramchhodbhai Patel (1967) Hermenegild Santapau (1967) M. S. Swaminathan (1967) Guduru Venkatachalam (1967) Raja Ramanna (1968) Nautam Bhatt (1969) Amrik Singh Cheema (1969) T. V. Mahalingam (1969)
1970s	P. R. Pisharoty (1970) Moti Lal Dhar (1971) Zafar Futehally (1971) Devendra Lal (1971) Charles Correa (1972) N. Kesava Panikkar (1973) Govind Swarup (1973) Achyut Kanvinde (1974) Suchitra Mitra (1974) C. N. R. Rao (1974) Sitaram Rao Valluri (1974) Rajagopala Chidambaram (1975) Shambhu Dayal Sinvhal (1976) B. R. Deodhar (1976) B. V. Doshi (1976) Atmaram Bhairav Joshi (1976) Janaki Ammal (1977) Jugal Kishore Choudhury (1977) Prafulla Kumar Jena (1977) Vishwa Gopal Jhingran (1977) Sibte Hasan Zaidi (1977)
1980s	Hari Krishan Jain (1981) Gurcharan Singh Kalkat (1981) Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan (1982) Satya Prakash (1982) V. Narayana Rao (1982) Saroj Raj Choudhury (1983) Hassan Nasiem Siddiquie (1983) Maria Renee Cura (1984) Vasant Gowarikar (1984) Pramod Kale (1984) Nilamber Pant (1984) Myneni Hariprasada Rao (1984) M. R. Srinivasan (1984) Predhiman Krishan Kaw (1985) P. V. S. Rao (1987) Ramadas P. Shenoy (1987) Saroj Ghose (1989) Palle Rama Rao (1989)
1990s	Ram Narain Agarwal (1990) Laurie Baker (1990) M. R. Kurup (1990) Rakesh Bakshi (1991) B. L. Deekshatulu (1991) Narinder Kumar Gupta (1991) Shri Krishna Joshi (1991) Raghunath Anant Mashelkar (1991) Govindarajan Padmanaban (1991) Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna (1991) A. V. Rama Rao (1991) Ganeshan Venkataraman (1991) Madhava Ashish (1992) Kailash Sankhala (1992) Vinod Prakash Sharma (1992) Joseph Allen Stein (1992) Manmohan Attavar (1998) Priyambada Mohanty Hejmadi (1998) Anil Kakodkar (1998) Aditya Narayan Purohit (1998) V. K. Saraswat (1998) Asis Datta (1999) Indira Nath (1999) M. S. Ramakumar (1999) M. V. Rao (1999) S. K. Sikka (1999)
2000s	Vijay P. Bhatkar (2000) D. D. Bhawalkar (2000) Gurdev Khush (2000) Parasu Ram Mishra (2000) Sandip Kumar Basu (2001) Bisweswar Bhattacharjee (2001) V. K. Chaturvedi (2001) Ketayun Ardeshir Dinshaw (2001) Prem Shanker Goel (2001) Goverdhan Mehta (2001) C. G. Krishnadas Nair (2001) M. S. Raghunathan (2001) Sanjaya Rajaram (2001) T. V. Ramakrishnan (2001) Thirumalachari Ramasami (2001) Dasika Durga Prasada Rao (2001) Paul Ratnasamy (2001) Ashoke Sen (2001) Bikash Sinha (2001) Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme (2001) A. S. Arya (2002) Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (2002) Padmanabhan Balaram (2002) Dorairajan Balasubramanian (2002) Ramanath Cowsik (2002) Chaitanyamoy Ganguly (2002) Kota Harinarayana (2002) Ashok Jhunjhunwala (2002) Amitav Malik (2002) Katuru Narayana (2002) A. Sivathanu Pillai (2002) I. V. Subba Rao (2002) B. N. Suresh (2002) Asok Kumar Barua (2003) Shivram Bhoje (2003) Jai Bhagwan Chaudhary (2003) Sarvagya Singh Katiyar (2003) Gyan Chandra Mishra (2003) Jai Pal Mittal (2003) Sundaram Ramakrishnan (2003) Baburao Govindrao Shirke (2003) Mahendra Singh Sodha (2003) Nagarajan Vedachalam (2003) Satish Kumar Kaura (2004) Nalini Ranjan Mohanty (2004) T. S. Prahlad (2004) Vishweshwaraiah Prakash (2004) K. N. Shankara (2004) Lalji Singh (2004) Rajpal Singh Sirohi (2004) M. Vijayan (2004) Dipankar Banerjee (2005) Srikumar Banerjee (2005) Banwari Lal Chouksey (2005) Bhagavatula Dattaguru (2005) Vasudevan Gnana Gandhi (2005) Madhu Sudan Kanungo (2005) M. Mahadevappa (2005) Ramachandran Balasubramanian (2006) Harsh Gupta (2006) Seyed E. Hasnain (2006) Narendra Kumar (2006) B. V. Nimbkar (2006) Swaminathan Sivaram (2006) Thekkethil Kochandy Alex (2007) Rabi Narayan Bastia (2007) Dilip K. Biswas (2007) Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (2007) Kiran Karnik (2007) Thanu Padmanabhan (2007) Baldev Raj (2007) Sudhir Kumar Sopory (2007) Khadg Singh Valdiya (2007) Kasturi Lal Chopra (2008) Joseph H. Hulse (2008) Bhavarlal Jain (2008) Kaleem Ullah Khan (2008) Sant Singh Virmani (2008) Pramod Tandon (2009) Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadav (2009)
2010s	Vijay Prasad Dimri (2010) Pucadyil Ittoop John (2010) Palpu Pushpangadan (2010) M. R. S. Rao (2010) Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath (2010) Ponisseril Somasundaran (2010) M. Annamalai (2011) Moni Lal Bhoumik (2011) Coimbatore Narayana Rao Raghavendran (2011) Suman Sahai (2011) G. Shankar (2011) E. A. Siddiq (2011) Subra Suresh (2011) V. Adimurthy (2012) Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai (2012) Krishna Lal Chadha (2012) Virander Singh Chauhan (2012) Y. S. Rajan (2012) Jagadish Shukla (2012) Vijaypal Singh (2012) Lokesh Kumar Singhal (2012) Manindra Agrawal (2013) Mustansir Barma (2013) Avinash Chander (2013) Sanjay Govind Dhande (2013) Jayaraman Gowrishankar (2013) Sharad P. Kale (2013) Sankar Kumar Pal (2013) Deepak B. Phatak (2013) Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju (2013) Ajay K. Sood (2013) K. VijayRaghavan (2013) Sekhar Basu (2014) Madhavan Chandradathan (2014) Jayanta Kumar Ghosh (2014) Ravi Grover (2014) Ramakrishna V. Hosur (2014) E. D. Jemmis (2014) A. S. Kiran Kumar (2014) Ajay Kumar Parida (2014) M. Y. S. Prasad (2014) Brahma Singh (2014) Vinod K. Singh (2014) Govindan Sundararajan (2014) Subbiah Arunan (2015) Jacques Blamont (2015) N. Prabhakar (2015) Prahlada (2015) S. K. Shivakumar (2015) Mylswamy Annadurai (2016) Dipankar Chatterji (2016) Satish Kumar (2016) Onkar Nath Srivastava (2016) Veena Tandon (2016) G. D. Yadav (2016) Jitendra Nath Goswami (2017) Chintakindi Mallesham (2017) Amitava Roy (2018) Vikram Chandra Thakur (2018) Rajagopalan Vasudevan (2018) Manas Bihari Verma (2018) Uddhab Bharali (2019) Baldev Singh Dhillon (2019) Rohini Godbole (2019) Subhash Kak (2019)
2020s	Raman Gangakhedkar (2020) Sujoy K. Guha (2020) K. S. Manilal (2020) Vashishtha Narayan Singh (2020) Thalappil Pradeep (2020) H. C. Verma (2020) Sudhir K. Jain (2020) Rattan Lal (2021)

v t e Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Physical Sciences
1950s	K. S. Krishnan (1958)
1960s	M. G. K. Menon (1960) G. N. Ramachandran (1961) Vikram Sarabhai (1962) Raja Ramanna (1963) A. R. Verma (1964) B. Ramachandra Rao (1965) Suresh Chand Jain (1966) S. Ramaseshan (1966) Devendra Lal (1967) A. P. Mitra (1968) Asoke Nath Mitra (1969)
1970s	Vainu Bappu (1970) P. K. Iyengar (1971) S. Chandrasekhar (1972) S. K. Joshi (1972) Virendra Singh (1973) K. P. Sinha (1974) M. S. Sodha (1974) K. L. Chopra (1975) B. R. Nag (1975) C. K. Majumdar (1976) Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan (1976) Jayant Narlikar (1978) E. S. Raja Gopal (1978) Ajoy Ghatak (1979) S. S. Jha (1979)
1980s	N. Mukunda (1980) N. S. Satya Murthy (1980) S. M. Roy (1981) Ramanujan Srinivasan (1981) Girish Saran Agarwal (1982) T. V. Ramakrishnan (1982) S. S. Kapoor (1982) Ramamurti Rajaraman (1983) Ramanath Cowsik (1984) Ranganathan Shashidhar (1984) Narendra Kumar (1985) K. Singh (1985) P. K. Kaw (1986) Vijay Kumar Kapahi (1987) Probir Roy (1987) Deepak Kumar (1988) O. N. Srivastava (1988) M. Lakshmanan (1989) N. V. Madhusudana (1989)
1990s	G. Baskaran (1990) A. K. Sood (1990) Deepak Dhar (1991) Deepak Mathur (1991) Vikram Kumar (physicist) (1992) S. R. Shenoy (1992) Gopal Krishna (1993) Rajiah Simon (1993) A. K. Raychaudhuri (1994) Ashoke Sen (1994) Mustansir Barma (1995) Thanu Padmanabhan (1996) B. K. Chakrabarti (1997) A. Raychaudhuri (1997) S. R. Das (1998) A. M. Jayannavar (1998) Sunil Mukhi (1999) E. V. Sampathkumaran (1999)
2000s	Sriram Ramaswamy (2000) Varun Sahni (2000) Rahul Pandit (2001) Avinash Anant Deshpande (2002) Mohit Randeria (2002) G. Ravindra Kumar (2003) Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya (2003) Madan Rao (2004) Sandip Trivedi (2005) Atish Dabholkar (2006) Sanjay Puri (physicist) (2006) Yashwant Gupta (2007) Pinaki Majumdar (2007) Raghunathan Srianand (2008) Srikanth Sastry (2008) Rajesh Gopakumar (2009) Abhishek Dhar (2009)
2010s	Kalobaran Maiti (2010) Umesh Waghmare (2010) Shiraz Minwalla (2011) Arindam Ghosh (2012) Krishnendu Sengupta (2012) Amol Dighe (2013) Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy (2013) Pratap Raychaudhuri (2014) Sadiqali Abbas Rangwala (2014) Bedangadas Mohanty (2015) Mandar Madhukar Deshmukh (2015) S. Anantha Ramakrishna (2016) Sudhir Kumar Vempati (2016) Nissim Kanekar (2017) Vinay Gupta (2017) Aditi De (2018) Ambarish Ghosh (2018) Aninda Sinha (2019) Shankar Ghosh (2019)
2020s	Surajit Dhara (2020) Rajesh Ganapathy (2020)

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