Subir Banerjee
Subir Kumar Banerjee (born February 19, 1938 in Jamshedpur ) is an Indian geophysicist.
Banerjee studied at the University of Calcutta with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1956, the Indian Institute of Technology with a master's degree in 1959 and the University of Cambridge , where he received his doctorate in geophysics in 1963. He then carried out research on ferrites at Mullard Research Laboratories in Redhill in England and then at the University of Newcastle , where he was a lecturer from 1966 to 1969 . 1967/68 he was at the Ampex Corporation and at Stanford University and from 1969 he was a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and in the laboratory of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. In 1970/71 he was at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory . In 1971 he became associate professor and in 1974 professor of geophysics at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis . In 1990 he founded the Institute for Rock Magnetism (IRM) there and was its director.
Banerjee deals with magnetism of rocks with applications to paleomagnetism and geomagnetism. In addition to basic research, for example on the remanent magnetization of magnetic oxides in rocks, he dealt specifically with paleomagnetic data from sediments (for example from lakes and soils) and applied this to archaeological, palaeoclimatic and environmental studies. To this end, he was involved in the development of rapid methods of paleomagnetic investigation of soils and their use in stratigraphy and reconstruction of the climate of the last 150,000 years. With Frank D. Stacey he wrote a standard work on rock magnetism in 1974.
He also studied the paleomagnetism of lunar rocks.
In addition, he also deals with the history of Islamic sciences in the Middle Ages and was an adjunct professor in this area at his university.
In 2004 he received the Louis Néel Medal . He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and received its John Adam Fleming Medal in 2006. In 1983 he received a D. Sc. Cambridge University. He has also been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2006 . In 2003 he received the first William Gilbert Award from AGU.
From 1986 to 1988 he was President of the Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Section of the American Geophysical Union.
Fonts
- with Frank D. Stacey The physical principles of rock magnetism , Elsevier 1974
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Laudatory speech
- ↑ Laudatory speech
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Banerjee, Subir |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Banerjee, Subir Kumar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian geophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jamshedpur |