Supplementary material from "Devendra Lal. 14 February 1929—1 December 2012"
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Devendra Lal was an Indian nuclear physicist who began his career studying particle physics while a student at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Bombay, using tracks in nuclear emulsions to study cosmic ray particles and their interactions. He soon moved on to the search for radionuclides produced in the atmosphere by cosmic ray bombardment, independently (with colleagues) discovering radioisotopes of Be, P and Si and using them as geophysical tracers for atmospheric, meteorological and oceanographic processes. His career revolved principally around multiple aspects of cosmic rays, employing theory and experiment to examine their flux, chemical composition and energy spectrum, both at present and in the past through (for example) studies of particle tracks in the minerals of meteorites and lunar samples. He played a major role in developing approaches for the use of terrestrial cosmic-ray-produced isotopes as dating tools and tracers for a wide range of Earth processes, from biological cycles in the ocean to landscape evolution and ice ablation in the Antarctic. At various stages of his career Lal was professor at TIFR and led the geophysics group there, was professor and director of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, India, and was professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. He was elected fellow of numerous scientific organizations and academies internationally, and was the recipient of many scientific awards and prizes.
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Goswami, J. N.; Macdougall, J. D. (2021). Supplementary material from "Devendra Lal. 14 February 1929—1 December 2012". The Royal Society. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5322668.v1