Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by T.N. Narasimhan (Indian-American Academic)

T. N. Narasimhan (1935–2011) was an American geologist and academic of Indian origin. He was a professor of hydrogeology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Born in India, Narasimhan graduated in geology from the University of Madras in 1956 and started his career at the Geological Survey of India doing systematic groundwater surveys. He pursued his PhD at Berkeley under the celebrated professor Paul Witherspoon.

Narasimhan is remembered mainly for his extensive contributions to the knowledge of the mechanisms of near surface-groundwater.

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Groundwater has been used for domestic and irrigation needs from time immemorial. Yet its nature and occurrence have always possessed a certain mystery because water below the land surface is invisible and relatively inaccessible. The influence of this mystery lingers in some tenets that govern groundwater law.
T.N. Narasimhan
Topics: Water

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