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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Manik Talwani</b> (* <a href="22._August" title="22. August">22. August</a> <a href="1933" title="1933">1933</a> in <a href="Patiala" title="Patiala">Patiala</a>; † <a href="22._M%C3%A4rz" title="22. März">22. März</a> <a href="2023" title="2023">2023</a> in Auburndale, <a href="Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) war ein <a href="Indien" title="Indien">indisch</a>-<a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">US-amerikanischer</a> <a href="Geophysik" title="Geophysik">Geophysiker</a>, der sich mit mariner Geophysik und <a href="Meereskunde" title="Meereskunde">Ozeanographie</a> beschäftigte.
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<p>Talwani studierte Physik an der <a href="University_of_Delhi" title="University of Delhi">University of Delhi</a> (<a href="Bachelor" title="Bachelor">Bachelor</a> 1951, <a href="Master" title="Master">Master</a>-Abschluss 1953) und wurde 1959 an der <a href="Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> promoviert. Danach war er am <a href="Lamont-Doherty_Earth_Observatory" title="Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory">Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory</a> der Columbia University, dessen Direktor er 1972 bis 1981 war. Außerdem war er 1970 bis 1982 Professor an der Columbia University. Ab 1981 war er Direktor des Center for Marine Crustal Studies der Gulf Research and Development Company und 1983 bis 1985 deren Chief Scientist. 1985 bis 1998 war er Direktor des Geotechnology Research Institute des Houston Advanced Research Center. 1985 bis 2006 war er außerdem <i>Schlumberger Professor</i> an der <a href="Rice_University" title="Rice University">Rice University</a>. Seit 2006 war er dort Professor Emeritus.
</p><p>1965 erhielt er die erste Krishnan Medal der Indian Geophysical Union, 1967 die <a href="James_B._Macelwane_Medal" title="James B. Macelwane Medal">James B. Macelwane Medal</a>, 1973 den Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award der <a href="NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>, 1981 den Maurice Ewing Award, 1984 den George P. Woollard Award und 2002 den Ludger Mintrop Award. 2009 erhielt er die <a href="Emil-Wiechert-Medaille" title="Emil-Wiechert-Medaille">Emil-Wiechert-Medaille</a> und 1993 die <a href="Alfred_Wegener_Medal" title="Alfred Wegener Medal">Alfred Wegener Medal</a>. 1981 wurde er Ehrendoktor der Universität Oslo und 2010 hielt er die Goldschmidt Lecture des Norwegian Geological Survey. Er war Mitglied der <a href="Norwegische_Akademie_der_Wissenschaften" title="Norwegische Akademie der Wissenschaften">Norwegischen Akademie der Wissenschaften</a>, der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1992), der American Geophysical Union, der Geological Society of India und der <a href="American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science" title="American Association for the Advancement of Science">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a>. 1973/74 war er <a href="Guggenheim-Stipendium" title="Guggenheim-Stipendium">Guggenheim Fellow</a>.
</p><p>Er war US-amerikanischer Staatsbürger.
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<p>Talwani befasste sich mit Exploration von Ozeanbecken und Kontinentalschelfen, zum Beispiel im Raum Island-Grönland-Norwegen,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> einschließlich früher Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Nordatlantiks aus paläömagnetischen Daten mit <a href="Walter_C._Pitman" title="Walter C. Pitman">Walter C. Pitman</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Strukturen in den Ozeanböden an den Kontinentalrändern der USA (z.&nbsp;B. im Rahmen des EDGE Projekts, um tiefenseismisch untergeschobene Kontinentalplatten zu untersuchen<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) und denen von Indien.
</p><p>Er befasste sich mit der Entwicklung und Verfeinerung mariner gravimetrischer Messungen. In den 1960er Jahren entwickelte er numerische Methoden, das Magnetfeld und Gravitationsfeld beliebig geformter Körper zu bestimmen.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Für das <a href="Apollo-Programm" title="Apollo-Programm">Apollo-Programm</a> war er einer der Verantwortlichen für die Gravitationsmessungen auf dem Mond (Apollo 17), genauer das Traverse Gravimeter Experiment (TGE).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Er befasste sich auch mit mariner Geodäsie.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li>Herausgeber mit Walter C. Pitman <i>Island Arcs Deep Sea Trenches and Back Arc Basins</i>, Maurice Ewing Series, No. 1, American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C., 1977</li>
<li>Herausgeber mit C.G. Harrison, D.E. Hayes <i>Deep Drilling Results in the Atlantic Ocean: Ocean Crust</i>, Maurice Ewing Series, No.2, American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C., 1979</li>
<li>Herausgeber mit W.W. Hay, W.B.F. Ryan <i>Deep Drilling Results in the Atlantic Ocean: Continental Margins and Paleoenvironment</i>, Maurice Ewing Series, No. 3, American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C., 1979</li>
<li>Herausgeber mit R. A. Scrutton <i>The Ocean Floor</i>, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1982</li>
<li>Herausgeber mit M. H. P. Bott, S. Saxov, J. Thiede <i>Structure and Development of the Greenland Scotland Ridge: New Methods and Concepts</i>, Plenum Press, New York, 1983</li>
<li>Herausgeber mit E. Banda, M. Torne <i>Rifted Ocean-Continent Boundaries</i>, NATO ASI Series 1994.</li>
<li>Herausgeber mit W. Mohriak <i>Atlantic Rifts and Continental Margins</i>, Geophysical Monograph 115, American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C., 2000</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.glacier.rice.edu/faculty/talwani/">Homepage</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/manik-talwani-obituary?id=51576292"><i>Manik Talwani Obituary (1933–2023).</i></a> In: <i>legacy.com.</i><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 24.&nbsp;April 2023</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AManik+Talwani&amp;rft.title=Manik+Talwani+Obituary+%281933%E2%80%932023%29&amp;rft.description=Manik+Talwani+Obituary+%281933%E2%80%932023%29&amp;rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.legacy.com%2Fus%2Fobituaries%2Flegacyremembers%2Fmanik-talwani-obituary%3Fid%3D51576292&amp;rft.language=en">&nbsp;</span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eeps.rice.edu/news/2023/eeps-mourns-passing-manik-talwani"><i>EEPS mourns passing of Manik Talwani.</i></a> <a href="Rice_University" title="Rice University">Rice University</a>, 27.&nbsp;März 2023,<span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 24.&nbsp;April 2023</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AManik+Talwani&amp;rft.title=EEPS+mourns+passing+of+Manik+Talwani&amp;rft.description=EEPS+mourns+passing+of+Manik+Talwani&amp;rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Feeps.rice.edu%2Fnews%2F2023%2Feeps-mourns-passing-manik-talwani&amp;rft.publisher=%5B%5BRice+University%5D%5D&amp;rft.date=2023-03-27&amp;rft.language=en">&nbsp;</span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Talwani, Manik, Charles C. Windisch, Marcus G. Langseth, Jr., <i>Reykjanes Ridge Crest: A detailed geophysical study</i>, J. Geophys. Res., 76(2), 473–517, 1971, Talwani, Olav Eldholm, <i>Evolution of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea</i>, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 88, 969–999, 1977</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Talwani, Walter C. Pitman <i>Sea–floor spreading in the North Atlantic</i>, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 83, 619–646, 1972</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Talwani James A. Austin <i>EDGE—An Initiative to Study Submerged Continental Lithosphere Around the U.S.</i>, EOS, 70v12, 177, 1989</span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Talwani, J. Lamar Worzel, Mark Landisman, <i>Rapid gravity computations for two-dimensional bodies with application to the Mendocino submarine fracture zone</i>, J. Geophys. Res., 64(1), 49–59, 1959, Talwani, Maurice Ewing <i>Rapid computation of gravitational attraction of three-dimensional bodies of arbitrary shape</i>, Geophysics, 25(1), 203–225, 1960, Talwani, James R. Heirtzler, <i>Computation of magnetic anomalies caused by two-dimensional structures of arbitrary shape</i>, in George A. Parks (Herausgeber) <i>Computers in the Mineral Industries</i>, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University (Publc.), 1964, S. 464–480. Talwani <i>Computation with the help of a digital computer of magnetic anomalies caused by bodies of arbitrary shape</i>, Geophysics, 30(5), 797–817, 1965</span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Talwani <i>The Apollo 17 gravity measurements on the moon</i>, The Leading Edge, August 2003, Band 22, S. 786. Talwani <i>Lunar Gravity Traverse Equipment</i>, in <i>The Moon</i>, Band 4, 1972, S. 307, Reidel Publ.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Talwani, James H. Dorman, J. Lamar Worzel, George M. Bryan, <i>Navigation at sea by satellite</i>, J. Geophys. Res., 71(24), 5891–5902, 1966</span>
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