Manik Talwani

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Manik Talwani (born August 22, 1933 in Patiala ) is an Indian - American geophysicist who deals with marine geophysics and oceanography .

Life

Talwani studied physics at the University of Delhi ( Bachelor's degree in 1951, Master's degree in 1953) and received his doctorate in 1959 from Columbia University . Then he was at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, whose director he was from 1972 to 1981. He was also a professor at Columbia University from 1970 to 1982. From 1981 he was director of the Center for Marine Crustal Studies of the Gulf Research and Development Company and its chief scientist from 1983 to 1985. From 1985 to 1998 he was director of the Geotechnology Research Institute at the Houston Advanced Research Center. From 1985 to 2006 he was also Schlumberger Professor at Rice University . He has been Professor Emeritus there since 2006.

In 1965 he received the first Krishnan Medal of the Indian Geophysical Union, in 1967 the James B. Macelwane Medal , in 1973 the Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award from NASA , in 1981 the Maurice Ewing Award, in 1984 the George P. Woollard Award and in 2002 the Ludger Mintrop Award. In 2009 he received the Emil Wiechert Medal and in 1993 the Alfred Wegener Medal . In 1981 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo and in 2010 he gave the Goldschmidt Lecture of the Norwegian Geological Survey. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences , the Russian Academy of Sciences (1992), the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of India and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1973/74 he was a Guggenheim Fellow .

He is a US citizen.

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Talwani dealt with exploration of ocean basins and continental shelves, for example in the Iceland-Greenland-Norway area, including early work on the history of the North Atlantic from paleomagnetic data with Walter C. Pitman , structures in the ocean floors at the continental margins of the USA (e.g. as part of the EDGE project to investigate deep-seismically submerged continental plates) and those of India.

He dealt with the development and refinement of marine gravimetric measurements. In the 1960s he developed numerical methods to determine the magnetic and gravitational fields of bodies of any shape.

For the Apollo program he was one of the people responsible for the gravitational measurements on the moon (Apollo 17), more precisely the Traverse Gravimeter Experiment (TGE).

He also dealt with marine geodesy.

Fonts

  • Editor with Walter C. Pitman Island Arcs Deep Sea Trenches and Back Arc Basins , Maurice Ewing Series, No. 1, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, 1977
  • Editor with CG Harrison, DE Hayes Deep Drilling Results in the Atlantic Ocean: Ocean Crust , Maurice Ewing Series, No.2, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, 1979
  • Editor with WW Hay, WBF Ryan Deep Drilling Results in the Atlantic Ocean: Continental Margins and Paleoenvironment , Maurice Ewing Series, No. 3, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, 1979
  • Editor with RA Scrutton The Ocean Floor , John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1982
  • Editor with MHP Bott, S. Saxov, J. Thiede Structure and Development of the Greenland Scotland Ridge: New Methods and Concepts , Plenum Press, New York, 1983
  • Editor with E. Banda, M. Torne Rifted Ocean-Continent Boundaries , NATO ASI Series 1994.
  • Editor with W. Mohriak Atlantic Rifts and Continental Margins , Geophysical Monograph 115, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, 2000

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Talwani, Manik, Charles C. Windisch, Marcus G. Langseth, Jr., Reykjanes Ridge Crest: A detailed geophysical study , J. Geophys. Res., 76 (2), 473-517, 1971, Talwani, Olav Eldholm, Evolution of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea , Geol. Soc. At the. Bull., 88, 969-999, 1977
  2. ↑ Talwani, Walter C. Pitman Sea-floor spreading in the North Atlantic , Geol. Soc. At the. Bull., 83, 619-646, 1972
  3. ^ Talwani James A. Austin EDGE — An Initiative to Study Submerged Continental Lithosphere Around the US , EOS, 70v12, 177, 1989
  4. ↑ Talwani, J. Lamar Worzel, Mark Landisman, Rapid gravity computations for two-dimensional bodies with application to the Mendocino submarine fracture zone , J. Geophys. Res., 64 (1), 49–59, 1959, Talwani, Maurice Ewing Rapid computation of gravitational attraction of three-dimensional bodies of arbitrary shape , Geophysics, 25 (1), 203–225, 1960, Talwani, James R. Heirtzler, Computation of magnetic anomalies caused by two-dimensional structures of arbitrary shape , in George A. Parks (editor) Computers in the Mineral Industries , School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University (Publc.), 1964, pp. 464-480. Talwani Computation with the help of a digital computer of magnetic anomalies caused by bodies of arbitrary shape , Geophysics, 30 (5), 797-817, 1965
  5. ↑ Talwani The Apollo 17 gravity measurements on the moon , The Leading Edge, August 2003, Volume 22, p. 786. Talwani Lunar Gravity Traverse Equipment , in The Moon , Volume 4, 1972, p. 307, Reidel Publ.
  6. ↑ Talwani, James H. Dorman, J. Lamar Worzel, George M. Bryan, Navigation at sea by satellite , J. Geophys. Res., 71 (24), 5891-5902, 1966
personal data
SURNAME Talwani, Manik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian-American geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Patiala