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{{Short description|Indian geophysicist and seismologist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Krishan Lal Kaila
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|9|7}}
| birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| death_date = 2003
| death_place = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]
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| fields = {{ublist | [[Seismology]] | [[Geophysics]] }}
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| known_for = Studies on deep seismic soundings
| awards = {{ublist | 1976 [[Indian Geophysical Union|IGU]] Krishnan Medal | 1977 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 1994 [[Indian Geophysical Union|IGU]] Decennial Award }}
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'''Krishan Lal Kaila''' (1932–2003) was an Indian geophysicist and seismologist.<ref name="KailaKaila2012">{{cite book|author1=M. M. Kaila|author2=Rakhi Kaila|title=Molecular Imaging of the Brain: Using Multi-Quantum Coherence and Diagnostics of Brain Disorders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=06cuTEHF6jcC&pg=PR25|date=20 September 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-30301-2|pages=25–}}</ref> Born to a [[Punjabi khatri]] family in [[Lahore]] of the [[British India]] (presently in Pakistan) on 7 September 1932,<ref name="KailaKaila2010">{{cite book|author1=Madan M Kaila|author2=Rakhi Kaila|title=Quantum Magnetic Resonance Imaging Diagnostics of Human Brain Disorders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oqmFI88W8rQC&pg=PR9|date=21 June 2010|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-12-384712-6|pages=9–}}</ref> he was known for his studies on deep seismic soundings (DSS)<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=492 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize}}</ref> and was one of the pioneers of the DSS technique in India. His studies covered the tectonic regions of [[Kadapa]], [[Dharwar craton|Dharwar Craton]], [[Deccan Traps]], and the [[sedimentary basins]] of [[Gujarat]] and the [[Himalayas]] and added to the understanding of the geophysics of the region.<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=10 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 researches have been documented as several peer-reviewed articles;{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} [[ResearchGate]], an online article repository has listed 117 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/71964671_KL_Kaila |title=on ResearchGate |date=2016 }}</ref> Several authors have cited his works in their work.<ref name="Macdougall2013">{{cite book|author=J. D. Macdougall|title=Continental Flood Basalts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gsGLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT305|date=17 April 2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-015-7805-9|pages=305–}}</ref><ref name="Verma2012">{{cite book|author=R.K. Verma|title=Gravity Field, Seismicity and Tectonics of the Indian Peninsula and the Himalayas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rGJDBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA197|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-009-5259-1|pages=197–}}</ref><ref name="Lo2011">{{cite book|author=Ching-Hua Lo|title=Solid Earth (SE)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_RpqDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA115|year=2011|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4355-38-4|pages=115–}}</ref>

== Awards ==
He received the Krishnan Medal and the Decennial Award of the [[Indian Geophysical Union]] in 1976<ref name="IGU Awards">{{Cite web |url-status=dead |url=http://www.igu.in/awards.htm |title=IGU Awards |date=2016 |publisher=[[Indian Geophysical Union]] |archive-date=20 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220190225/http://www.igu.in/awards.htm }}</ref> and 1994 respectively.<ref name="IGU Awards" /> 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 1977.<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}}</ref> He died in New Delhi in 2003, at the age of 71.<ref name="KailaKaila2010" />

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{Cite journal |last=K. L. Kaila, Madhava Rao |title=Seismotectonic maps of the European area |journal=Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America |date=December 1975 |volume=65 |issue=6 |pages=1721–1732|doi=10.1785/BSSA0650061721 |bibcode=1975BuSSA..65.1721K |s2cid=129043045 }}
* {{Cite journal |last=K. L. Kaila, Dipankar Sarkar |title=Earthquake intensity attenuation pattern in the United States |journal=Geophys. J. Int. |date=1982 |volume=70 |issue=1 |pages=31–39 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-246X.1982.tb06389.x|bibcode=1982GeoJ...70...31K |doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=K. L. Kaila |author2=K. M. Tripathi |author3=M. M. Dixit |title=Crustal Structure Along Wular Lake-Gulmarg-Naoshera Profile Across Pir Panjal Range of the Himalayas From Deep Seismic Soundings |journal=Journal of the Geological Society of India |date=November 1984 |volume=25 |issue=11}}
* {{Cite journal |last=V. G. Krishna, K.L. Kaila |title=Digitization program of analog DSS records and their reinterpretation |journal=International Symposium on Deep Seismic Sounding Traverses |date= 1986 |doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.2912.6809 }}
* {{Cite journal |last=K. L. Kaila, Kalachand Sain |title=Variation of Crustal Velocity Structure in India as Determined from DSS Studies and their Implications on Regional Tectonics |journal=Journal of the Geological Society of India |date=April 1997 |volume=49 |issue=4}}

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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.geosocindia.org/index.php/jgsi/search/authors/view?firstName=K.%20L.&middleName=&lastName=Kaila&affiliation=National%20Geophysical%20Research%20Institute,%20Hyderabad%20500007&country=IN |title=Kaila, K. L. |work=Author details |date=2016 |publisher=Journal of the Geological Society of India}}

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[[Category:Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences]]
[[Category:1932 births]]
[[Category:2003 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian geologists]]
[[Category:Indian seismologists]]
[[Category:Indian geophysicists]]
[[Category:Scientists from Lahore]]
[[Category:People from Punjab Province (British India)]]

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