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Pramod Sadasheo Moharir (21 April 1943 – 14 January 2003) was an Indian geophysicist and a former senior scientist at the National Geophysical Research Institute. He was known for his studies on geophysical signal processing.

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 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 National Geophysical Research Institute 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 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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References

1. V.P. Dimri (1 January 2000). Application of Fractals in Earth Sciences. CRC Press. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-90-5410-284-7.
2. "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
3. "Batch of 1971". IIT Kanpur. 2016.
4. ^ V. P. Dimri (April 2003). "Pramod Sadasheo Moharir (1943–2003)" (PDF). Current Science. 84 (7). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2004. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
5. "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 19 December 2016.
6. Pramod Sadasheo Moharir (1992). Pattern-Recognition Transforms. Research Studies Press. ISBN 978-0-86380-137-2.
7. "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.

External links

• Pramod Sadasheo Moharir (1992). Pattern-recognition transforms. Taunton, England: Research Studies Press. p. 272. ISBN 9780863801372.

• 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