Madhav Gadgil
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Madhav Gadgil
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| Born | 1942 Pune, Maharashtra |
| Residence | Pune |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Fields | Ecology, Conservation Biology, Human Ecology, Ecological history |
| Institutions |
Harvard University Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
| Alma mater |
Pune University Mumbai University Harvard University |
| Known for |
Gadgil Commission People Biodiversity Register in India |
| Notable awards |
Padma Shri Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Rajyotsava Prashasthi Harvard Centennial Medal Volvo Environment Prize Padma Bhushan H. K. Firodia award Georgescu-Roegen Award Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement Georgescu-Roegen Award Vikram Sarabhai Award Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar Award |
Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil (born 1942) is an Indian ecologist, academic, writer, columnist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, a research forum under the aegis of the Indian Institute of Science. He is a former member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India and the Head of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) of 2010, popularly known as the Gadgil Commission. He is a recipient of the Volvo Environment Prize and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri in 1981 and followed it up with the third highest award of the Padma Bhushan in 2006.
Gadgil was born on 24 May 1942 to Pramila and Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil, a Cambridge scholar, economist, former director of the Gokhale Institute and the author of the Gadgil formula, in Pune, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra and graduated in biology from Fergusson College of the University of Pune in 1963. He secured a master's degree in zoology from the Mumbai University in 1965.
Gadgil was encouraged to join Harvard University by Giles Mead, then curator of fishes at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Initially intending to do research under Mead, Gadgil later changed subjects by hearing lectures of E. O. Wilson, "the brightest young star in the ecology-evolution end of biology at Harvard at that time," and subsequently did his doctoral research on mathematical ecology and fish behaviour, under the guidance of William Bossert, one of Wilson's former students.
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