J. G. Negi, born on 1 August 1936 in the tribal village of Khidhgaon of Khandwa district East Nimar in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to Ganpatrao and Laxmi Devi, completed his graduate studies in science at Victoria College (present-day MLB Government College of Excellence) in 1956 before obtaining a master's degree from Dan Singh Bisht Government College, Nainital in 1958.[5]
His academic career started at Holkar Science College of Jiwaji University as a lecturer where he worked from 1958 to 1959 during which time he enrolled at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for his doctoral studies and secured a PhD in 1962. He continued at IIT Kharagpur for two more years as a research scholar and joined National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad in 1964 as a senior scientific officer. He spent the rest of his official career at NGRI, serving in such various positions as assistant director (1971–79), senior assistant director (1979–82), deputy director (1982–83), senior deputy director (1983–90) and director grade scientist to superannuate from service in 1996 as the director. Post retirement, he serves as an emeritus scientist of the institute.[3]
Negi's theoretical studies have been focusing on the areas of geoelectromagnetics and geomagnetism of geophysics and his researches have assisted in the wider understanding of gravity, heat flow and electromagnetic fields of Earth's surface.[6] His studies have been detailed in a book, Anisotropy in Geoelectromagnetism,[7] as chapters in books by others,[8] and as several peer reviewed articles[note 1] and his work has been cited by many authors.[9][10][11] He headed the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology as its director general and served as the scientific advisor to the Government of Madhya Pradesh for two terms during 1992–94 and 2005–06.[3] When the Institute of Seismological Research, Gandhinagar was established in 2003, he served as the founder director general of the institution till 2005. He is a former UNESCO lecturer and a visiting faculty at many universities including Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Federal University of Bahia and Federal University of Pará.[5]
Negi is married to Asha Billore and the couple has two sons, Atul and Madhav. He died on 9 November 2016, in Hyderabad, at the age of 80.[12]
J. G. Negi; P. D. Saraf (1989). Anisotropy in geoelectromagnetism. Elsevier. ISBN978-0-444-87495-5.
Chapters
S. Böhme; U. Esser; H. Hefele, I. Heinrich, W. Hofmann, D. Krahn, V. R. Matas, L. D. Schmadel, G. Zech (11 November 2013). Literature 1987. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 436–. ISBN978-3-662-12358-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
JG Negi; PK Agrawal; OP Pandey (1993). "A possible KT boundary bolide impact site offshore near Bombay and triggering of rapid Deccan volcanism". Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 76 (3) (published March 1993): 189–197. Bibcode:1993PEPI...76..189N. doi:10.1016/0031-9201(93)90011-W.
OP Pandey; PK Agrawal; JG Negi (1995). "Lithospheric structure beneath Laxmi Ridge and late Cretaceous geodynamic events". Geo-Marine Letters. 15 (2) (published June 1995): 85–91. Bibcode:1995GML....15...85P. doi:10.1007/BF01275411. S2CID140625794.
^S. Böhme; U. Esser; H. Hefele, I. Heinrich, W. Hofmann, D. Krahn, V. R. Matas, L. D. Schmadel, G. Zech (11 November 2013). Literature 1987. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 436–. ISBN978-3-662-12358-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
