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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Janardan Ganpatrao Negi
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| birth_date        = {{Birth date|df=yes|1936|8|1}}
| birth_place       = Khidhgaon, [[khandwa District]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], India
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2016|11|9|1936|8|1}}
| death_place       = [[Hyderabad]], Andhra Pradesh, India
| residence         = [[Hyderabad]], Andhra Pradesh, India
| nationality       = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields            = {{ublist | Theoretical [[geophysics]] }}
| workplaces        = {{ublist | [[Holkar Science College]] | [[IIT Kharagpur]] | [[National Geophysical Research Institute]] }}
| alma_mater        = {{ublist | MLB Govt. College of Excellence | Dan Singh Bisht Government College | [[IIT Kharagpur]] }}
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| known_for         = Studies on geoelectromagnetics and [[geomagnetism]]
| awards            = {{ublist | 1974&nbsp;[[Indian Geophysical Union|IGU]] [[Krishnan Medal]] | 1980&nbsp;[[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 1991&nbsp;Association of Exploration Geophysicists Award | 1991&nbsp;AEG Lifetime Achievement Award | Holkar Science College Centenary Award | Vigyan Ratna }}
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'''Janardan Ganpatrao Negi''' (1 August 1936&nbsp;– 9 November 2016)<ref>http://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/CURS/article/view/141919</ref> is an Indian theoretical [[geophysicist]] and an emeritus scientist at [[National Geophysical Research Institute]].<ref name="NGRI: Internal tremors">{{Cite web |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ngri-deputy-director-says-geophysical-research-rotting-at-the-institute-demands-review/1/354608.html |title=NGRI: Internal tremors |date=15 January 2014 |publisher=[[India Today]]}}</ref> He is known for his studies on geoelectromagnetics and [[geomagnetism]]<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=216 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and is an elected fellow of the [[Royal Astronomical Society]], London and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]].<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |title=NASI fellows |date=2016 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India}}</ref> 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 1980.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref>

== Biography ==
[[File:Holkar college.jpg|thumb|235px|left|Holkar Science College in 1964]]
J. G. Negi, born on 1 August 1936 in the tribal village of Khidhgaon of [[Khandwa district East Nimar]] in the Indian state of [[Madhya pradesh]] to Ganpatrao and Laxmi Devi, completed his graduate studies in science at Victoria College (present-day MLB  Government College of Excellence) in 1956 before obtaining a master's degree from Dan Singh Bisht Government College, [[Nainital]] in 1958.<ref name="Dr. Janardan Ganpatrao Negi on IGU">{{Cite web |url=http://j-igu.in/igu%2020-2%20(web)/16-news%20and%20views.pdf |title=Dr. Janardan Ganpatrao Negi on IGU |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Geophysical Union}}</ref> His academic career started at [[Holkar Science College]] of [[Jiwaji University]] as a lecturer where he worked from 1958 to 1959 during which time he enrolled at the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur]] for his doctoral studies and secured a PhD in 1962. He continued at IIT Kharagpur for two more years as a research scholar and joined [[National Geophysical Research Institute]], Hyderabad in 1964 as a senior scientific officer. He spent the rest of his official career at NGRI, serving in such various positions as assistant director (1971–79), senior assistant director (1979–82), deputy director (1982–83), senior deputy director (1983–90) and director grade scientist to superannuate from service in 1996 as the director. Post retirement, he serves as an emeritus scientist of the institute.<ref name="NASI fellows" />

Negi's theoretical studies have been focusing on the areas of geoelectromagnetics and geomagnetism of geophysics and his researches have assisted in the wider understanding of gravity, heat flow and electromagnetic fields of Earth's surface.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=15 December 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> His studies have been detailed in a book, ''Anisotropy in Geoelectromagnetism'',<ref name="NegiSaraf1989">{{cite book|author1=J. G. Negi|author2=P. D. Saraf|title=Anisotropy in geoelectromagnetism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fGkSAQAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=[[Elsevier]]|isbn=978-0-444-87495-5}}</ref> as chapters in books by others,<ref name="BöhmeEsser2013">{{cite book|author1=S. Böhme|author2=U. Esser|author3=H. Hefele, I. Heinrich, W. Hofmann, D. Krahn, V. R. Matas, L. D. Schmadel, G. Zech|title=Literature 1987|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXLmCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA436|date=11 November 2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-662-12358-4|pages=436–}}</ref> and as several peer reviewed articles{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and his work has been cited by many authors.<ref name="JohnsonKnutson1989">{{cite book|author1=R. Wally Johnson|author2=Jan Knutson|author3=Stuart Ross Taylor, Australian Academy of Science|title=Intraplate Volcanism: In Eastern Australia and New Zealand|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4NBOn7ecZeAC&pg=PA381|date=24 November 1989|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=978-0-521-38083-6|pages=381–}}</ref><ref name="KaufmanLevshin2000">{{cite book|author1=Alexander A. Kaufman|author2=Anatoli L. Levshin|title=Acoustic and Elastic Wave Fields in Geophysics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6GmkMXBXWNMC&pg=PR2|year=2000|publisher=[[Gulf Professional Publishing]]|isbn=978-0-444-50642-9|pages=2–}}</ref><ref name="Rikitake1987">{{cite book|author=Tsuneji Rikitake|title=Magnetic and Electromagnetic Shielding|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImgOT9-jKU4C&pg=PA223|date=30 April 1987|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-90-277-2406-9|pages=223–}}</ref> He headed the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology as its director general and served as the scientific advisor to the Government of Madhya Pradesh for two terms during 1992–94 and 2005–06.<ref name="NASI fellows" /> When the Institute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar was established in 2003, he served as the founder director general of the institution till 2005. He is a former UNESCO lecturer and a visiting faculty at many universities including [[Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences]], [[Federal University of Bahia]] and [[Federal University of Pará]].<ref name="Dr. Janardan Ganpatrao Negi on IGU" />

Negi is married to Asha Billore and the couple has two sons, Atul and Madhav.

== Awards and honors ==
Negi received the [[Krishnan Medal]] of the Indian Geophysical Union in 1974.<ref name="Krishnan Medal">{{Cite web |url=http://www.igu.in/awards.htm |title=Krishnan Medal |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Geophysical Union}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1980.<ref name="Earth Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |title=Earth Sciences |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200915/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Earth_SCIENCES.htm |archive-date=3 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> A life fellow of the [[Royal Astronomical Society]], he was elected as a fellow by the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] in 1984,<ref name="NASI fellows" /> the same year as he received the National Lectureship of the [[University Grants Commission of India]].<ref name="Dr. Janardan Ganpatrao Negi on IGU" /> He is also a recipient of the [[Holkar Science College]] Centenary Award, Vigyan Ratna and the 1991 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association of Exploration Geophysicists. The award orations delivered by him include the Dr. H. N. Siddique Memorial Lecture of the Indian Geophysical Union in 2003.<ref name="Dr. H. N. Siddique Memorial Lecture">{{Cite web |url=http://www.igu.in/lectures.htm |title=Dr. H. N. Siddique Memorial Lecture |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Geophysical Union}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==

=== Books ===
* {{cite book|author1=J. G. Negi|author2=P. D. Saraf|title=Anisotropy in geoelectromagnetism|year=1989|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-444-87495-5}}

=== Chapters ===
* {{cite book|author1=S. Böhme|author2=U. Esser|author3=H. Hefele, I. Heinrich, W. Hofmann, D. Krahn, V. R. Matas, L. D. Schmadel, G. Zech |title=Literature 1987|date=11 November 2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-662-12358-4|pages=436–}}

=== Articles ===
* {{Cite journal |last=J. G. Negi |title=Convergence and Divergence in Gravity and Magnetic Interpretation |journal=Nature |publication-date=May 1996 |volume=210 |pages=616–617 |doi=10.1038/210616b0|bibcode=1966Natur.210..616N }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=JG Negi |author2=OP Pandey |author3=PK Agrawal |title=Super-mobility of hot Indian lithosphere |journal=Tectonophysics |publication-date=November 1986 |volume=131 |issue=1-2 |pages=147–156 |doi=10.1016/0040-1951(86)90272-6|bibcode=1986Tectp.131..147N }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=JG Negi |author2=PK Agrawal |author3=OP Pandey |title=Large variation of Curie depth and lithospheric thickness beneath the Indian subcontinent and a case for magnetothermometry |journal=Geophysical Journal International |publication-date=March 1987 |volume=83 |issue=6 |pages=763–775 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-246X.1987.tb01655.x|bibcode=1987GeoJ...88..763N |doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=JG Negi |author2=PK Agrawal |author3=OP Pandey |title=A possible KT boundary bolide impact site offshore near Bombay and triggering of rapid Deccan volcanism |journal=Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors |publication-date=March 1993 |volume=76 |issue=3 |pages=189–197 |doi=10.1016/0031-9201(93)90011-W|bibcode=1993PEPI...76..189N }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=OP Pandey |author2=PK Agrawal |author3=JG Negi |title=Lithospheric structure beneath Laxmi Ridge and late Cretaceous geodynamic events |journal=Geo-Marine Letters |publication-date=June 1995 |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=85–91 |doi=10.1007/BF01275411|bibcode=1995GML....15...85P }}

== See also ==
* [[Geomagnetism]]


== Notes ==
{{Reflist|group=note}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://geophysics.geoscienceworld.org/content/31/5/988 |title=Reply by authors to discussion by J. G. Negi |last=W. Lowrie, G. F. West |year=October 1996 |publisher=GeoScienceWorld |doi=10.1190/1.1486555|bibcode=1966Geop...31..988L }}

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[[Category:Jiwaji University alumni]]
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[[Category:People from Chandrapur district]]