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B. L. K. Somayajulu

January 01, 1970

Bhamidipati Lakshmidhara Kanakadri Somayajulu (1937-2016) is an Indian geochemist and a CSIR Emeritus Scientist at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.[1] He is known for his studies on ancient and contemporary marine processes[2] and is an elected fellow of several science societies such as the National Academy of Sciences, India,[3] Geological Society of India, Indian Geophysical Union, American Geophysical Union,[4] European Association for Geochemistry,[5] Indian Academy of Sciences[6] and the Indian National Science Academy.[7] 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 1978.[8]

B. L. K. Somayajulu
Born(1937-03-05)5 March 1937
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Died19 December 2016 (2016-12-20) (aged 79)[citation needed]
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India[citation needed]
Alma mater
Known forStudies on marine processes
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Biography edit

 
Physical Research Laboratory

B. L. K. Somayajulu, born on 5 March 1937 in the port city of Visakhapatanam in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, completed his graduate studies (BSc hons) from Andhra University in 1956. Subsequently, he joined BARC Training School, simultaneously enrolling at Bombay University for pursuing his doctoral studies.[9][10] During the course of his PhD studies, he moved to Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and had a three-year stint at Scripps Institution of Oceanography before securing a PhD in 1969 from Bombay University. His post-doctoral work was also at Scripps Institution and on his return to India, he joined Oceanography and Climate Studies Area, Earth Sciences and Solar System Division of Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in 1972.[7] He served the institution for the whole of his career till his superannuation in 1997 and post-retirement, he continues his association with PRL as an honorary professor and a CSIR Emeritus Scientist.[10]

Legacy edit

Somayajulu is known to have done extensive researches on the physico-chemical reactions within the oceans and the water-sediment interface and has developed many research methodologies which include the nuclear methods for the determination of the growth rates of manganese nodules, advection-diffusion mixing of ocean waters, cosmic ray-produced 32Si and 10Be in studies for determining the calculation of sediment accumulation rates and geochemical methods for studying reactive elements in sea water.[11] He conducted beryllium-10 studies on manganese nodules which helped establish the slow rate of growth of the nodules.[7] His researches have been documented as chapter in a book, The Indian Human Heritage,[12] and as several peer-reviewed articles,[note 1] the article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 100 of them.[13] He has also edited a book, From Mantle to Meteorites: A Garland of Perspectives - A Festschrift for Devendra Lal, published by Indian Academy of Sciences in 1990[14] and his work has been cited by several authors.[15][16][17]

Somayajulu served as the chief scientist for many studies conducted in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal and was a part of the Antipode expedition to the South Pacific and the GEOSECS Indian Ocean Expedition.[18] He was among the scientists who established the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility at the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar.[1] He has been a member of the governing council of the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, the research advisory committee of the Department of Ocean Development, and the executive committee of the International Association of Physical Sciences of the Ocean (IAPSO). He has been involved in the organization of many seminars,[19] served as a member of the Indian National Science Academy during 1988–90 and has mentored 7 doctoral scholars in their studies.[7]

Awards and honors edit

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded Somayajulu the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1978.[20] He received the Hari Om Ashram Prerit Award in Oceanology in 1981[7] and the National Award for Ocean Science and Technology of Ministry of Earth Sciences in 2006.[21] The Indian Academy of Sciences also elected him as a fellow in 1980[6] and the Indian National Science Academy followed suit three years later. He became an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India,[3] American Geophysical Union[4] and the European Association of Geochemistry in 1989, 2003 and 2004 respectively.[5] He is also a fellow of the Geological Society of India and the Indian Geophysical Union.[7] The award orations delivered by him include Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture Award of the Indian National Science Academy in 1997[22] and the Prof. K. R. Ramanathan Memorial Lecture of Physical Research Laboratory in 2001.[23]

Selected bibliography edit

Books edit

  • K. Gopalan; Vinod K. Gaur; B.L.K. Somayajulu; J.D. MacDougall, eds. (1990). From Mantle to Meteorites: A Garland of Perspectives - A Festschrift for Devendra Lal. Indian Academy of Sciences. p. 322. ISBN 978-0-19-562581-3. ASIN 0195625811.

Chapters edit

  • D. Balasubramanian; B. L. K. Somayajulu (1998). "Contributions of Chronology to Indian Human Heritage". The Indian Human Heritage. Universities Press. ISBN 978-81-7371-128-2.

Articles edit

  • B. L. K. Somayajuu; T. J. Walsh; C. Radhakrishnamurthy (1975). "Magnetic susceptibility stratigraphy of Pacific Pleistocene sediments". Nature. 253 (5493) (published February 1975): 616–617. Bibcode:1975Natur.253..616S. doi:10.1038/253616a0. S2CID 4276167.
  • BLK Somayajulu; R Rengarajan; D Lal; RF Weiss; H Craig (1987). "GEOSECS Atlantic 32 Si profiles". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 85 (4) (published October 1987): 329–342. doi:10.1016/0012-821X(87)90131-2.
  • BLK Somayajulu; R Rengarajan; D Lal; H Craig (1991). "GEOSECS Pacific and Indian Ocean 32 Si profiles". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 107 (1) (published October 1991): 197–216. doi:10.1016/0012-821X(91)90055-M.
  • Somayajulu, B. L. K., Srinivasan, M. S. (2000). "Paleoceanography". Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy: 77–85.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • R Rengarajan; MM Sarin; BLK Somayajulu; R Suhasini (March 2002). "Mixing in the surface waters of the western Bay of Bengal using 228Ra and 226Ra". Journal of Marine Research. 60 (2): 255–279. doi:10.1357/00222400260497480. S2CID 140538455.
  • BLK Somayajulu; R Rengarajan; RA Jani (2002). "Geochemical cycling in the Hooghly estuary, India". Marine Chemistry. 79 (3) (published October 2002): 171–183. Bibcode:2002MarCh..79..171S. doi:10.1016/S0304-4203(02)00062-2.
  • M. Tiwari; R. Ramesh; B. L. K. Somayajulu; A. J. T. Juli; G. S. Burr (2005). "Paleomonsoon precipitation deduced from a sediment core from the equatorial Indian Ocean". Geo-Mar Lett. 26 (published 2006): 23–30. doi:10.1007/s00367-005-0012-0. S2CID 129925442.

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Please see Selected bibliography section

References edit

  1. ^ a b "AMS programme at IOP, Bhubaneswar". Institute of Physics. 2016.
  2. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  3. ^ a b (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2015.
  4. ^ a b "AGU fellows". American Geophysical Union. 2016.
  5. ^ a b . European Association of Geochemistry. 2016. Archived from the original on 25 March 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  6. ^ a b "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  7. ^ a b c d e f "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016.
  8. ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  9. ^ "Bhamidipati Lakshmidhara Kanakadri Somayajulu (1937–2016)" (PDF). Current Science. 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  10. ^ a b "Biographical Notes". Obituary. National Center for Environmental Information. 2016.
  11. ^ (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  12. ^ D. Balasubramanian; B. L. K. Somayajulu (1998). "Contributions of Chronology to Indian Human Heritage". The Indian Human Heritage. Universities Press. ISBN 978-81-7371-128-2.
  13. ^ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016.
  14. ^ K. Gopalan; Vinod K. Gaur; B.L.K. Somayajulu; J.D. MacDougall, eds. (1990). From Mantle to Meteorites: A Garland of Perspectives - A Festschrift for Devendra Lal. Indian Academy of Sciences. p. 322. ISBN 978-0-19-562581-3. ASIN 0195625811.
  15. ^ Ravi Korisettar; Michael D. Petraglia (2 September 2003). Early Human Behaviour in Global Context: The Rise and Diversity of the Lower Palaeolithic Record. Routledge. pp. 381–. ISBN 978-1-134-82856-2.
  16. ^ Yvonne Herman (6 December 2012). The Arctic Seas: Climatology, Oceanography, Geology, and Biology. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 654–. ISBN 978-1-4613-0677-1.
  17. ^ A. Lerman (17 April 2013). Lakes: Chemistry, Geology, Physics. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 175–. ISBN 978-1-4757-1152-3.
  18. ^ GEOSECS Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean Expeditions: Volume 7, Shorebased Data and Graphics. National Science Foundation. 1987.
  19. ^ "Agnihotri, R." National Institute of Oceanography. 2016.
  20. ^ . Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
  21. ^ "National Award for Ocean Science and Technology". Ministry of Earth Sciences. 2016.
  22. ^ . Indian National Science Academy. 2016. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  23. ^ "Prof. K.R. Ramanathan Memorial Lecture" (PDF). Physical Research Laboratory. 2016.

External links edit

  • Yvonne Herman (6 December 2012). The Arctic Seas: Climatology, Oceanography, Geology, and Biology. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 654–. ISBN 978-1-4613-0677-1.

January 01, 1970
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Bhamidipati Lakshmidhara Kanakadri Somayajulu 1937 2016 is an Indian geochemist and a CSIR Emeritus Scientist at Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad 1 He is known for his studies on ancient and contemporary marine processes 2 and is an elected fellow of several science societies such as the National Academy of Sciences India 3 Geological Society of India Indian Geophysical Union American Geophysical Union 4 European Association for Geochemistry 5 Indian Academy of Sciences 6 and the Indian National Science Academy 7 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 1978 8 B L K SomayajuluBorn 1937 03 05 5 March 1937Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh IndiaDied19 December 2016 2016 12 20 aged 79 citation needed Ahmedabad Gujarat India citation needed Alma materAndhra UniversityBombay UniversityScripps Institution of OceanographyKnown forStudies on marine processesAwards1978 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize1981 Hari Om Ashram Prerit Award2006 MoES National Award for Ocean Science and TechnologyScientific careerFieldsGeochemistryGeochronologyOceanographyInstitutionsBARC Training SchoolTata Institute of Fundamental ResearchPhysical Research Laboratory Contents 1 Biography 2 Legacy 3 Awards and honors 4 Selected bibliography 4 1 Books 4 2 Chapters 4 3 Articles 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksBiography edit nbsp Physical Research Laboratory B L K Somayajulu born on 5 March 1937 in the port city of Visakhapatanam in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh completed his graduate studies BSc hons from Andhra University in 1956 Subsequently he joined BARC Training School simultaneously enrolling at Bombay University for pursuing his doctoral studies 9 10 During the course of his PhD studies he moved to Tata Institute of Fundamental Research TIFR and had a three year stint at Scripps Institution of Oceanography before securing a PhD in 1969 from Bombay University His post doctoral work was also at Scripps Institution and on his return to India he joined Oceanography and Climate Studies Area Earth Sciences and Solar System Division of Physical Research Laboratory PRL in 1972 7 He served the institution for the whole of his career till his superannuation in 1997 and post retirement he continues his association with PRL as an honorary professor and a CSIR Emeritus Scientist 10 Legacy editSomayajulu is known to have done extensive researches on the physico chemical reactions within the oceans and the water sediment interface and has developed many research methodologies which include the nuclear methods for the determination of the growth rates of manganese nodules advection diffusion mixing of ocean waters cosmic ray produced 32Si and 10Be in studies for determining the calculation of sediment accumulation rates and geochemical methods for studying reactive elements in sea water 11 He conducted beryllium 10 studies on manganese nodules which helped establish the slow rate of growth of the nodules 7 His researches have been documented as chapter in a book The Indian Human Heritage 12 and as several peer reviewed articles note 1 the article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 100 of them 13 He has also edited a book From Mantle to Meteorites A Garland of Perspectives A Festschrift for Devendra Lal published by Indian Academy of Sciences in 1990 14 and his work has been cited by several authors 15 16 17 Somayajulu served as the chief scientist for many studies conducted in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal and was a part of the Antipode expedition to the South Pacific and the GEOSECS Indian Ocean Expedition 18 He was among the scientists who established the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility at the Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar 1 He has been a member of the governing council of the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research the research advisory committee of the Department of Ocean Development and the executive committee of the International Association of Physical Sciences of the Ocean IAPSO He has been involved in the organization of many seminars 19 served as a member of the Indian National Science Academy during 1988 90 and has mentored 7 doctoral scholars in their studies 7 Awards and honors editThe Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded Somayajulu the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize one of the highest Indian science awards in 1978 20 He received the Hari Om Ashram Prerit Award in Oceanology in 1981 7 and the National Award for Ocean Science and Technology of Ministry of Earth Sciences in 2006 21 The Indian Academy of Sciences also elected him as a fellow in 1980 6 and the Indian National Science Academy followed suit three years later He became an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences India 3 American Geophysical Union 4 and the European Association of Geochemistry in 1989 2003 and 2004 respectively 5 He is also a fellow of the Geological Society of India and the Indian Geophysical Union 7 The award orations delivered by him include Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture Award of the Indian National Science Academy in 1997 22 and the Prof K R Ramanathan Memorial Lecture of Physical Research Laboratory in 2001 23 Selected bibliography editBooks edit K Gopalan Vinod K Gaur B L K Somayajulu J D MacDougall eds 1990 From Mantle to Meteorites A Garland of Perspectives A Festschrift for Devendra Lal Indian Academy of Sciences p 322 ISBN 978 0 19 562581 3 ASIN 0195625811 Chapters edit D Balasubramanian B L K Somayajulu 1998 Contributions of Chronology to Indian Human Heritage The Indian Human Heritage Universities Press ISBN 978 81 7371 128 2 Articles edit B L K Somayajuu T J Walsh C Radhakrishnamurthy 1975 Magnetic susceptibility stratigraphy of Pacific Pleistocene sediments Nature 253 5493 published February 1975 616 617 Bibcode 1975Natur 253 616S doi 10 1038 253616a0 S2CID 4276167 BLK Somayajulu R Rengarajan D Lal RF Weiss H Craig 1987 GEOSECS Atlantic 32 Si profiles Earth and Planetary Science Letters 85 4 published October 1987 329 342 doi 10 1016 0012 821X 87 90131 2 BLK Somayajulu R Rengarajan D Lal H Craig 1991 GEOSECS Pacific and Indian Ocean 32 Si profiles Earth and Planetary Science Letters 107 1 published October 1991 197 216 doi 10 1016 0012 821X 91 90055 M Somayajulu B L K Srinivasan M S 2000 Paleoceanography Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy 77 85 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link R Rengarajan MM Sarin BLK Somayajulu R Suhasini March 2002 Mixing in the surface waters of the western Bay of Bengal using 228Ra and 226Ra Journal of Marine Research 60 2 255 279 doi 10 1357 00222400260497480 S2CID 140538455 BLK Somayajulu R Rengarajan RA Jani 2002 Geochemical cycling in the Hooghly estuary India Marine Chemistry 79 3 published October 2002 171 183 Bibcode 2002MarCh 79 171S doi 10 1016 S0304 4203 02 00062 2 M Tiwari R Ramesh B L K Somayajulu A J T Juli G S Burr 2005 Paleomonsoon precipitation deduced from a sediment core from the equatorial Indian Ocean Geo Mar Lett 26 published 2006 23 30 doi 10 1007 s00367 005 0012 0 S2CID 129925442 See also editAccelerator Mass Spectrometry nbsp India portal nbsp Geology portalNotes edit Please see Selected bibliography sectionReferences edit a b AMS programme at IOP Bhubaneswar Institute of Physics 2016 Brief Profile of the Awardee Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2016 Retrieved 12 November 2016 a b NASI fellows PDF National Academy of Sciences India 2016 Archived from the original PDF on 6 August 2015 a b AGU fellows American Geophysical Union 2016 a b EAG Fellows by year European Association of Geochemistry 2016 Archived from the original on 25 March 2017 Retrieved 13 December 2016 a b Fellow profile Indian Academy of Sciences 2016 Retrieved 12 November 2016 a b c d e f Indian fellow Indian National Science Academy 2016 View Bhatnagar Awardees Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2016 Retrieved 12 November 2016 Bhamidipati Lakshmidhara Kanakadri Somayajulu 1937 2016 PDF Current Science 2017 Retrieved 14 November 2017 a b Biographical Notes Obituary National Center for Environmental Information 2016 Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners PDF Council of Scientific and Industrial Research 1999 Archived from the original PDF on 4 March 2016 Retrieved 13 December 2016 D Balasubramanian B L K Somayajulu 1998 Contributions of Chronology to Indian Human Heritage The Indian Human Heritage Universities Press ISBN 978 81 7371 128 2 Browse by Fellow Indian Academy of Sciences 2016 K Gopalan Vinod K Gaur B L K Somayajulu J D MacDougall eds 1990 From Mantle to Meteorites A Garland of Perspectives A Festschrift for Devendra Lal Indian Academy of Sciences p 322 ISBN 978 0 19 562581 3 ASIN 0195625811 Ravi Korisettar Michael D Petraglia 2 September 2003 Early Human Behaviour in Global Context The Rise and Diversity of the Lower Palaeolithic Record Routledge pp 381 ISBN 978 1 134 82856 2 Yvonne Herman 6 December 2012 The Arctic Seas Climatology Oceanography Geology and Biology Springer Science amp Business Media pp 654 ISBN 978 1 4613 0677 1 A Lerman 17 April 2013 Lakes Chemistry Geology Physics Springer Science amp Business Media pp 175 ISBN 978 1 4757 1152 3 GEOSECS Atlantic Pacific and Indian Ocean Expeditions Volume 7 Shorebased Data and Graphics National Science Foundation 1987 Agnihotri R National Institute of Oceanography 2016 Earth Sciences Council of Scientific and Industrial Research 2016 Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 National Award for Ocean Science and Technology Ministry of Earth Sciences 2016 Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture Indian National Science Academy 2016 Archived from the original on 16 September 2016 Retrieved 13 December 2016 Prof K R Ramanathan Memorial Lecture PDF Physical Research Laboratory 2016 External links editYvonne Herman 6 December 2012 The Arctic Seas Climatology Oceanography Geology and Biology Springer Science amp Business Media pp 654 ISBN 978 1 4613 0677 1 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title B L K Somayajulu amp oldid 1223459445, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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