Devendra Lal

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

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	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

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]