b'PeopleNewsVale: Professor Emeritus Dattatray Parasnis 19272023Geophysics, which was updated andSwedish applied geophysics as well printed in several editions and used as aas his teaching and leading research textbook in many countries. Datta waspublications on potential \x1deld and widely known, but you still couldnt helpelectrical and electromagnetic methods. but be surprised when, for example, inIndeed, this recognition extended to the jungles of Central America you metpractising Australian geophysicists from geoscientists who knew him well. the 1960s and over the early decades Datta was heavily involved in skills buildingof the ASEG. His seminal early textbook Principles of Applied Geophysics updated at universities in developing countriesand republished in four editions from and contributed to the establishment of1962 to 1986, was used as a primary geophysical departments. He supervisedreference textbook in Australian university many PhD students. They were often givenundergraduate courses in geophysics and a great deal of freedom in their research,exploration geoscience over this period.something that contributed to them gaining a strong independence for theIn my postgraduate years in the early bene\x1dt of their careers. 1970s at the University of NSW, School Dattatray Parasnis had a strong scienti\x1dcof Applied Geology, under Assoc. position with his successful research, wasProfessor Laric Hawkins, Dr Bob Whiteley rewarded with a number of awards andand Dr Ifti Qureshi, D. S. Parasnis was a very good ambassador for Luleprinciples and practices in electrical Datta Parasnis University of Technology. Many of usand electromagnetic geophysics were miss him. an important foundation in the many Datta, as he was commonly called, camecase-history electrical geophysical survey to Sweden in the 1950s after universityProfessor Emeritus Dattatray Parasnis,articles published in Geophysical Case studies in Bombay and Cambridge. HeLule, passed away on 16 June 2023 atStudy of the Woodlawn Orebody, NSW began his career as a geophysicist atthe age of 96. Next of kin are his childrenAustralia, Ed. R. J. Whiteley, Pergamon AB Elektriks Malmletning in Stockholm.Irawati, Ravindra and Amalendu withPress 1981, and in The Geophysics of the There he met his future wife, Helenatheir families. Elura Orebody, Ed. D. W. Emerson, ASEG Nystrm from Finland. In 1960, theySten-ke Elming, Eric Forssberg, LennartBulletin Vol 11, No.4.moved to Boliden, where he wasElfgren and Thorkild Maack Rasmussen,employed as a research physicist. Professor Parasnis was also a friend Lule University of Technology, Sweden and colleague of Dr Ifti Qureshi, from Datta continued his university studies, nowtheir postgraduate years in the United in Uppsala, where he became a leadingOriginally Published by Lulea UniversityKingdom and that friendship and their teacher and researcher in solid earthof Technology, Sweden 19 July 2023exchanges contributed to the teaching of physics. With his studies in geoelectricalhttps://www.ltu.se/org/sbn/Minnesord- geophysics at UNSW. It was through this methods, he came to further develop aProfessor-emeritus-Dattatray-Parasnis- link that I was introduced to Professor strong Swedish prospecting technical1.231289?l=en) Parasnis who was appointed as an research tradition, which resulted in a largeexternal examiner of my own PhD Thesis number of scienti\x1dc publications. Further re\x1bections from Ted Tyne in 1987. It was indeed a privilege to It was therefore unsurprising that inThe passing of Professor D S Parasnis, anreceive valuable guidance, suggestions 1974 he was called to a professorship inicon of applied geophysics developmentsand generous commendations from prospecting geophysics at Lule Institutein the Swedish exploration industry andProfessor Parasnis on my own exploration of Technology and thus contributed to itsat Lule University of Technology, is ageophysics research.mining pro\x1dle. Datta was elected in 1976reminder of Swedens leadership together to the Royal Academy of Engineeringwith Canada and the US in the earlyCondolences from the ASEG to the family Sciences (IVA). development of geophysical explorationof Professor Parasnis and to his many methods in Scandinavia and the Americas. friends and colleagues.Besides many journal articles, Datta wrote several books. He had greatProfessor Parasnis was widely recognisedTed Tyne success with Principles of Appliedfor his in\x1buence on developments inTed.Tyne@bigpond.comDECEMBER 2023 PREVIEW 12'