Pramod Sadasheo Moharir (21 April 1943 – 14 January 2003) was an Indian

geophysicist Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term ''geophysics'' som ...

and a former senior scientist at the

National Geophysical Research Institute The National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) is a geoscientific research organization established in 1961 under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India's largest Research and Development organization. It is suppo ...

. He was known for his studies on geophysical

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Biography

Born on April 21,1943, he obtained an MTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 1966 and after securing a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1971 under the guidance of Kalluri Ramalinga Sarma, he started his career as a lecturer at

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) is a Deemed university in Pilani, Jhunjhunu, India. It focuses primarily on higher education and research in engineering and sciences. After expansion to a campus in Dubai, it has b ...

but moved to the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 1972. His stay at IIT Roorkee was short-lived and the same year, he joined the Indian Institute of Science where he served as a lecturer till 1976 when he was appointed as an assistant professor at IIT Mumbai. After one year, he returned to IIT Roorkee and served the institute as a reader and professor until 1989. His next move was to the

as a visiting scientist but became a senior scientist in 1992 and served there till his death on 14 January 2003 succumbing to a brain haemorrhage, at the age of 59. Moharir's researches were focused on the resolving the problems of modelling of earthquake sequences as well as on designing numerical algorithms for earth system models. He was the author of a book on the subject titled, ''Pattern Recognition Transforms''. The

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada''), abbreviated as CSIR, was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the l ...

, 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 1987.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moharir, Pramod Sadashiv Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences 1943 births Indian geophysicists 2003 deaths IIT Bombay alumni IIT Kanpur alumni Academic staff of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Academic staff of IIT Bombay Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science 20th-century Indian earth scientists Scientists from Maharashtra Academic staff of IIT Roorkee