Background
Anantharama Parameswara Subramaniam was born on March 7 in the year 1921 in India.
Anantharama Parameswara Subramaniam was born on March 7 in the year 1921 in India.
Anantharama Parameswara Subramaniam took the degree of Bachelor of Science in Geology of the Madras University in 1940, and the Master of Science degree of the Banaras Hindu University two years later.
In 1943 he joined the Geological Survey of India. After completing five seasons of active field work mostly in the Archaean metamorphic terrain of southern India, he joined the Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, in 1949 and worked under the guidance of eminent professors like A.F. Buddington, H.H. Hess and E. Sampson, on a collection of rare metamorphic rocks from southern India. For his outstanding petrographic and mineralogical studies on the above rock collection, he was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy in 1952. He was a Princeton University Scholar during 1949-1950 and a Fellow of that university during 1950-1951.
In 1955 Anantharama Parameswara Subramaniam spent six months in Prof. Tilley's laboratory at the Cambridge University as a Royal Society of London bursar on post-doctoral research on charnockites and granulites of the Madras area. His field studies supported by laboratory work resulted in a re-interpretation of the genetic history of charnockites of the type area near Madras.
Among other positions which he held with distinction, Dr. Subramaniam occupied the post of Petrologist at the headquarters of the Geological Survey of India for nearly four years, from 1956 to 1959, and during that period he re-organised the petrology and mineralogy laboratories, creating modern research facilities. From 1960 till he joined the Airborne Mineral Surveys and Exploration in 1968, he was responsible for the supervision of large field parties of the Geological Survey of India working in Gujarat and Maharashtra in Western India, and directed the geological mapping of over 6000 sq. miles of area in parts of the Archaean Complex, Proterozoic, Gondwana and the Deccan lava terrain.
In 1968 he was appointed to the post of Officer on Special Duty in the Department of Airborne Mineral Surveys and Exploration where he was closely associated with the various phases of work of that organisation such as aerial photo-mosaicing, photogeological interpretation, airborne geophysical systems, evaluation of airborne data and integrated ground follow-up operations. He took over duties as Deputy Coordinator of that organisation in 1969. He carried out the projects with initiative and direction in collaboration with reputed firms and agencies in the international field.
Anantharama Parameswara Subramaniam was a member of the Board of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Dr. Subramaniam was a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and was the Convener of that Academy's Sectional Committee for Geology from 1969 to 1971. He was also a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences as also of the Geological Societies of India, London and Australia; Indian Geophysical Union and the Mineralogical Society of America; member of the Society of Economic Geologists, Geological Society of America and of the Mineralogical Society of Britain.