Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia

Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, often cited as DN Wadia ( born 25 October 1883 in Surat, † June 15, 1969 ) was an Indian geologist.

Life

Wadia comes from a parsichen family in Gujarat, originally shipbuilders - his father was superintendent of a railway station. He went to college in Baroda, where he made 1903 Bachelor's degrees in zoology and botany, and in 1905 in botany and geology and 1906 master's degrees in biology and geology. From 1907 he was a professor at Prince of Wales College in Jammu, where he taught geology and other subjects and operational geological fieldwork in the Siwalik hills in advance of the Himalayas. He also discovered the tusks of a Stegodon. From 1921 he was with the Geological Survey of India, the first Indian who was not trained in Europe. He charted the Northwest Himalayas in Kashmir territory, for example, on Nanga Parbat. The bend of the Himalayas to the Nanga Parbat he explained unlike Eduard Suess not a coincidence of two different mountain ranges, rather than bending around a central mass ( the 500- million year old Purana system and a younger tectonic system from the Carboniferous to Eocene ). 1926/27, he was on an internship at the British Museum in London where he studied Indian vertebrate fossils, and visited in this period geological institutes in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia as well as a course on Alpine geology in Geneva. In 1938 he went with the Geological Survey to retire and was State Mineralogist in Sri Lanka and examined at this time its geology. In 1945 he became a geological consultant to the Government of India under Nehru and 1963, he was honored by the Indian government first, entitled National Professor of Geology.

In 1935 he published with Mukherjee and Krishnan a soil map of India.

In 1928, he discovered a well-preserved skull of amphibian Sclerocephalus ( Actinodon ) from the Carboniferous of Kashmir.

In 1960 he was awarded the Leopold- of - book - badge. In 1958 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1943 and the Lyell Medal. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1957). He has received numerous other Indian prizes and honorary doctorates of various Indian universities. 1946/7 he was President of the Indian National Science Academy (then Indian National Institute of Sciences). In 1942 and 1943 he was President of the Indian Science Congress, the geology section he presided over several times. In 1938 he was president of the Calcutta Geographical Society and in 1949 he was the first president of the Indian Society of Soil Sciences. 1951/52, he was president of the Geological Society of India. In 1955 he became president of Geographers Association of India, 1965/66 he was president of the Engineering Geological Society of India from 1965 to 1967 and the Geochemical Society of India. In 1964 he was president of the 22nd International Geological Congress in New Delhi.

He was a corresponding member of the Geological Society of America and Honorary Member of the Geological Society.

1919, the first edition of his textbook of geology of India, which replaced the outdated work of Medlicott and WT Blanford HD Manual of the geology of India ( which was edited in 1893 by the head of the Geological Survey of India RD Oldham ).

Writings

  • Geology of India for Students, Macmillan 1919, 6th edition 1966
  • Syntaxis of North - Western Himalayas: Its Rocks, Tectonics and Orogeny 1931
  • Geology of Nanga Parbat and Gilgit District, 1932
  • Cretaceous Volcanic Series in the Great Himalayan Range of Kashmir 1937
  • Structure of the Himalayas and of the North Indian Foreland, 1938
  • Minerals and Metal Resources of India, United Nations Conference, New York 1949
  • Tectonic relations of the Himalayans with the north indian foreland, geologists International Congress, Moscow 1937
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