Gaur, Vinod K.

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Gaur, Vinod K.

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        Vinod Kumar Gaur (born 1936) is an Indian seismologist, a former director of the National Geophysical Research Institute, and an honorary emeritus scientist at CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute, known for his prediction of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. 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 1979.

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