{"id":8924,"date":"2015-01-04T15:07:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=8924"},"modified":"2015-01-04T15:07:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:07:25","slug":"vasant-gowrikar-father-of-indian-mansoon-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=8924","title":{"rendered":"Vasant Gowrikar &#8211; Father of Indian Mansoon Model."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/vasant-gowarikar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8928\" src=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/vasant-gowarikar-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"vasant gowarikar\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"details\">\n<h3>Gowariker, \u2018Father of the Indian Monsoon Model\u2019, dies at\u00a081<\/h3>\n<p>Born in 1933 at Kolhapur, Gowariker did his Masters and later obtained his doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vasant Gowrikar<\/strong><br \/>\nNoted scientist and space veteran Vasat Gowrikar, who made valuable contribution to the fields of space research, weather and population was chiefly known as Father of Indian Mansoon Model.<\/p>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p>He worked for a few years with the UK Atomic Energy Authority before joining the space centre at Thumba (Kerala) in 1967 as Head of Propellant Engineering Division and later Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.<\/p>\n<p>He received a number of awards, including Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. Mourning Gowariker\u2019s death, noted astrophysicist Jayant Naralikar described him as a \u201cgifted scientist and nice human being\u201d. \u201cHe was the vice-chancellor of Pune University when I was heading Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Gowariker, \u2018Father of the Indian Monsoon Model\u2019, dies at\u00a081 Born in 1933 at Kolhapur, Gowariker did his Masters and later obtained his doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=8924\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[216,217,218,219],"class_list":["post-8924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-india","tag-father-of-the-indian-monsoon-model","tag-gowariker","tag-indian-monsoon-model","tag-the-indian-monsoon-model","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}