Subir Kumar Ghosh

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Born on 1 March 1932 in the Indian state of West Bengal, S. K. Ghosh graduated in science (BSc) from University of Kolkata and after completing a master's degree from the same institution, he joined his alma mater as a member of the faculty of geology in 1958. Simultaneously, enrolled at Presidency College, Kolkata for his doctoral studies under the guidance of Santosh Kumar Ray and secured a PhD working on the time-correlation of the structural and metamorphic histories of the terrain in Kuilapal village in Purulia District. Subsequently, he moved to Uppsala University where he worked under Hans Ramberg, a renowned geologist who would later lend his name to Rambergite mineral.{{Cite web |url=http://webmineral.com/AtoZ/index.php?st=1&init=R#.WE0Uzfl97IU |title=R Mineral Index |date=2016 |publisher=Mineral News}} He stayed with Ramberg for two years at the end of which period he received the degree of Filosofisk doktorgrad from Uppsala University in 1967 and returned to join Jadavpur University where he set up an experimental laboratory to continue his researches. He served the university till his superannuation in 1997 but continued his association post-retirement as an emeritus professor, an INSA senior scientist, and as an INSA honorary scientist. During this period, he also had a short stint in Sweden as a research associate for the Swedish National Programme for the Geodynamics Project.

Dr. Ghosh was married to Sheila Ghosh née Sen and the couple's son Abhik Ghosh is a noted chemist. He died on 30 October 2008, at the age of 76.

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Focusing his attention on the theoretical and experimental aspects of structural geology, Ghosh studied the geometrical relationships of the axial surfaces of folds with the principal planes of deformation{{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}} and his researches assisted in the wider understanding of the geological phenomena such as superposed buckle folding, buckling due to constructional deformation, rotation of spherical and ellipsoidal inclusions in shear zones, deformation of early lineations, chocolate tablet boudinage and evolution of shear zone structures. A theory on conglomerate deformation and an analysis of the mechanism of distortion of planar structure around rigid bodies have been credited to him. His researches have been documented as a book, Structural Geology: Fundamentals and Modern Developments,{{cite book|author=S.K. Ghosh|title=Structural Geology: Fundamentals and Modern Developments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWtFVD8EnRcC|date=24 October 2013|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-08-098399-8}} as chapters in books edited by others{{cite book|author1=Hans Ramberg|author2=Hemin A. Koyi|author3=Neil S. Mancktelow|title=Tectonic Modeling: A Volume in Honor of Hans Ramberg|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kxlHAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|year=2001|publisher=Geological Society of America|isbn=978-0-8137-1193-5|pages=1–}}{{cite book|author=S. Sengupta|title=Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-scales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-sl9CAAAQBAJ|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-011-5870-1}} and as over 50 peer-reviewed articles,{{Refn|group=note|Please see Selected bibliography section}} the article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed a number of them.{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Ghosh=3AProf=2E_Subir_Kumar=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}} He also published a field guide for field research in Ghatsila.{{Cite book |author1=Subir Kumar Ghosh |author2=Sanjib Chandra Sarkar |author3=Sudipta Sengupta |title=A field guide for Ghatsila and neighbouring mineral-belt |publisher=Jadavpur University |publication-date=1987 |issue=a |page=87}} He served as a National professor of the University Grants Commission of India during 1979–80 and sat in the editorial boards of the Journal of Structural Geology of Oxford University Press and Tectonophysics of Elsevier, besides mentoring thirteen doctoral scholars in their studies.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded Ghosh the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1977.{{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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200915/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |archive-date=2016-03-03 }} The Indian National Science Academy elected him as their fellow in 1979, INSA would honor him again in 1998 with K. Naha Memorial Medal.{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.res.in/recipients.php#pkn | title=Professor K. Naha Memorial Medal | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2016 }} The same year, the Indian Academy of Sciences also elected him as a fellow. Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-scales,{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-sl9CAAAQBAJ |title=Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-scales |last=S. Sengupta |date=6 December 2012 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-94-011-5870-1}} edited by Sudipta Sengupta and published by Springer in 1997 is a festschrift on Ghosh and Kshitindramohan Naha, another noted geologist.{{cite book|author=S. Sengupta|title=Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-scales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-sl9CAAAQBAJ&pg=PT18|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-011-5870-1|pages=18–}}

• {{cite book|author=S.K. Ghosh|title=Structural Geology: Fundamentals and Modern Developments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWtFVD8EnRcC|date=24 October 2013|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-08-098399-8}}
• {{Cite book |author1=Subir Kumar Ghosh |author2=Sanjib Chandra Sarkar |author3=Sudipta Sengupta |title=A field guide for Ghatsila and neighbouring mineral-belt |publisher=Jadavpur University |publication-date=1987 |issue=a |page=87}}

• {{cite book|author1=Hans Ramberg|author2=Hemin A. Koyi|author3=Neil S. Mancktelow|title=Tectonic Modeling: A Volume in Honor of Hans Ramberg|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kxlHAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|year=2001|publisher=Geological Society of America|isbn=978-0-8137-1193-5|pages=1–}}
• {{cite book|author=S. Sengupta|title=Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-scales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-sl9CAAAQBAJ|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-011-5870-1}}

• {{Cite journal |last=Kshitindramohan Naha, Subir Kumar Ghosh |title=Archaean Palaeogeography of Eastern and Northern Singhbhum, Eastern India |journal=Geological Magazine |year=1960 |publication-date=October 1960 |volume=97 |issue=5 |pages=436–439 |doi=10.1017/S0016756800061781|bibcode=1960GeoM...97..436N |s2cid=140183934 }}
• {{Cite journal |last=Subir Kumar Ghosh |title=A theoretical study of intersecting fold patterns |journal= Tectonophysics|year=1970 |publication-date=June 1970 |volume=9 |issue=6 |pages=559–569 |doi=10.1016/0040-1951(70)90006-5|bibcode=1970Tectp...9..559G }}
• {{Cite journal |last=Subir Kumar Ghosh |title=Types of transpressional and transtensional deformation |journal=GSA Memoirs |year=2001 |publication-date=April 2000 |volume=193 |pages=1–20 |doi=10.1130/0-8137-1193-2.1|isbn=9780813711935 }}

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• Kshitindramohan Naha
• Abhik Ghosh
• Hans Ramberg
• Sudipta Sengupta

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• {{Cite journal |last=Dhruba Mukhopadhyay |title=Mihir Kumar Bose (1933-2009) |journal=Journal of Geological Survey of India |publication-date=July 2010 |volume=76 |issue=1 |page=95- |url=http://www.geosocindia.org/index.php/jgsi/article/view/58496}}

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