Sri Niwas
{{Short description|Indian geophysicist (1946–2012)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Sri Niwas
| image = SriNiwas.jpg
| caption = Sri Niwas, c. 2009
| awards = Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
| alma_mater = Banaras Hindu University
| workplaces = IIT Roorkee
| death_date = 15 November 2012
| birth_date = 1946
}}
Sri Niwas (1946–2012) was an Indian geophysicist and a professor at the Department of Earth Sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.{{Cite web |url=http://rurkiu.tripod.com/acd-earth/fac.html |title=Professors - Department of Earth Sciences |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee}}{{Cite web |url=http://rurkiu.tripod.com/uor/handa.html |title=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awardees |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee}} He was known for his researches on the Inversion of Geophysical Data.{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=89 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}} He was an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian National Science Academy,{{Cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/1162235 |title=List of fellows |date=2016 |publisher=Academia}} Indian Academy of Sciences,{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Sri_Niwas,_Prof._ |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=12 November 2016}} National Academy of Sciences, India{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |title=NASI fellows |date=2016 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India}} as well as Indian Geophysical Union{{Cite web |url=http://www.igu.in/igu_directory.pdf |title=IGU fellows |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Geophysical Union}} and was an elected member of the Association of Exploration Geophysicists.{{Cite web |url=http://www.aegind.org/Members.html |title=Members List |date=2016 |publisher=Association of Exploration Geophysicists}} 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 1991.{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=12 November 2016}}{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}
Biography
Sri Niwas, born on 4 July 1946 in Rakhat village of Gorakhpur district, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to Ram Adhar Pandey, did his early schooling at local schools to complete his intermediate course from Board of High School and Intermediate Education Uttar Pradesh before joining Banaras Hindu University for his college education from where he passed BSc hons degree in 1966 and MSc in geophysics in 1968.{{Cite web |url=http://people.iitr.ernet.in/facultyresume/srsnpfes.pdf |title=Faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee}} He enrolled for doctoral studies at the same university and secured a PhD in 1974 for his thesis, Theoretical treatment of some problems on electrical behavior of layered Earth system.{{Cite journal |last=R. N. Singh, S. S. Rai |title=Sri Niwas (1946–2012) |url=http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/104/03/0373.pdf |journal=Current Science |publication-date=February 2013 |volume=104 |issue=3 |pages=373–374}} Subsequently, he did his post-doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (then known as University of Roorkee) and in 1976, joined the institution as a pool officer to start his career. He served out his entire career at IIT Roorkee, holding such positions as a Lecturer (1977–79) and Reader (1980–91) before superannuating in 2011 as a professor. In between, he served as a professor, chair of the Department of Geophysics and joint director of the Summer School{{Cite web |url=http://www.geosocindia.org/index.php/jgsi/article/download/66553/52112 |title=Summer School |date=2016 |publisher=Geological Society of India}} of Kurukshetra University from 1989 to 1992 on deputation and as a visiting professor at Federal University of Bahia during 2000–01. Post-retirement, he continued his association with IIT Roorkee as an emeritus professor.
Sri Niwas was married to Shashi Kala and the couple had three children. He died on 15 November 2012, at the age 67.
Legacy
The researches of Niwas were focused on the geophysical problems with regard to their forward and inverse solutions and his pioneering work assisted in the electrical exploration of groundwater in alluvial terrains.{{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}} He proposed models of system matrix function in terms of exponential functions and designed a methodology using singular value decomposition which is reported to have applications in a variety of geological environments. His studies have been detailed in several peer-reviewed articles;{{Refn|group=note|Please see Selected bibliography section}} the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed a number of them.{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Sri_Niwas=3AProf=2E=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}} He also guided 12 doctoral and 110 MTech students in their studies. His contributions were reported in the establishment of the Department of Geophysics at Kurukshetra University and he was one of the group of academicians who designed a curriculum in geophysics for IIT Roorkee. He was a life member of the Indian Geological Congress{{Cite web |url=http://igcroorkee.net/preview/pages/GBM%20Biennial%20Reprot.pdf |title=Life Member |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Geological Congress}} and a member of the faculty of Earth Sciences of the Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) program of the Department of Science and Technology.{{Cite web |url=http://www.inspire-dst.gov.in/List_of_Chairpersons_Members.pdf |title=INSPIRE Members |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Science and Technology}} He was also involved with the Summer School program of the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) and was a referee of Proceedings in Earth and Planetary Sciences of the Indian Academy of Sciences.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/jess/109/04/0549-0551 |title=A Debt of Gratitude |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}
Awards and honors
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1991.{{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 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200915/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |archivedate=3 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }} He was an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India and the Indian Geophysical Union and a member of the Association of Exploration Geophysicists.
Selected bibliography
- {{Cite journal |last=Sri Niwas, Pravin K. Gupta |title=Combined straightforward inversion of resistivity and induced polarization (time-domain) sounding data |journal=Journal of Applied Geophysics |year=2011 |publication-date=October 2011 |volume=75 |issue=2 |pages=319–326 |doi=10.1016/j.jappgeo.2011.06.024|bibcode=2011JAG....75..319S }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Sri Niwas, Olivar A. L. de Lima |title=Unified equation for straightforward inversion scheme on vertical electrical sounding data |journal=Geofizika |publication-date=April 2006 |volume=23 |issue=1}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Sri Niwas, Muhammed Celik |title=Equation estimation of porosity and hydraulic conductivity of Ruhrtal aquifer in Germany using near surface geophysics |journal=Journal of Applied Geophysics |year=2012 |publication-date=2012 |volume=84 |pages=77–85 |doi=10.1016/j.jappgeo.2012.06.001|bibcode=2012JAG....84...77N }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Sri Niwas1, Pravin K. Gupta, O. A. L. de Lima |title=Nonlinear electrical conductivity response of shaly-sand reservoir |journal=Current Science |publication-date=March 2007 |volume=92 |issue=5 |pages=612–617}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Sri Niwas, S. K. Upadhyay |title=Theoretical resistivity sounding results over a transition layer model |journal=Geophysical Prospecting |year=1974 |publication-date=June 1974 |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=279–296 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2478.1974.tb00086.x|bibcode=1974GeopP..22..279N }}
See also
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External links
- {{Cite web |url=http://geoscienceworld.org/search/advanced/author1:Niwas,Sri |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222152329/http://geoscienceworld.org/search/advanced/author1:Niwas,Sri |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-12-22 |title=On GeoScience World |date=2016 |publisher=On GeoScience World |work=Author listing }}
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Category:Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
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Category:20th-century Indian physicists