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|honorific-prefix = Sri Lanka Sikhamani |name = Thamotharam Somasekaram |native_name = |native_name_lang = |honorific-suffix = FRGS |image = T. Somasekaram.jpg |imagesize = |order1 = 37th |office1 = Surveyor General of Sri Lanka |term_start1 = 1991 |term_end1 = 1992 |predecessor1 = E. M. Perera |successor1 = S. Berugoda |birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|09|22|df=yes}} |birth_place = |death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|03|11|1934|09|22|df=yes}} |death_place = |citizenship = |nationality = |party = |otherparty = |spouse = |partner = |relations = |children = |residence = |alma_mater = Jaffna Hindu College University of Ceylon Fitzwilliam College Ohio State University |occupation = |profession = Surveyor |religion = |website = |footnotes = |blank1 = Ethnicity |data1 = Sri Lankan Tamil }} Sri Lanka Sikhamani Thamotharam Somasekaram (22 September 1934 – 11 March 2010) was a leading Sri Lankan Tamil geographer and Surveyor General. Early life and familySomasekaram was born on 22 September 1934.[1] He was educated at the Jaffna Hindu College.[2][3] After school he joined the University of Ceylon, Colombo from where he graduated in 1956 with a BSc degree.[1][4][5] Somasekaram married Sathanithi. They had three children (Damayanthi, Jayanthi and Arjun).[6][7] CareerAfter university Somasekaram joined the Government Survey Department as an Assistant Superintendent of Surveys.[1][4] A year later he joined Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in 1958 to study the Part II course in geography, which he completed in 1959.[1] On returning to Ceylon he rejoined the Survey Department.[1][4] He became Superintendent of Surveys in 1967, Assistant Surveyor General in 1971 and Deputy Surveyor General in 1973.[1][4] The latter position made in head of the Institute of Surveying and Mapping.[4] Somasekaram joined the Ohio State University in 1976 on a United Nations Fellowship, graduating with an MSc in Geodesy and Cartography.[1][4][5] Somasekaram became Surveyor General in 1991.[1][8] He came up with the idea of the Sri Lankan Atlas and chaired the committee charged with creating it.[1][4] He was awarded the Sri Lanka Sikhamani title, a Sri Lankan national honour, in 1990 for this work.[1] Somasekaram was president of the Surveyors' Institute of Sri Lanka (1985–87) and the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science.[1][4][9] In 1998 he was admitted as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jaffna.[1][4] He was vice-president of the Organisation of Professional Associations of Sri Lanka between 1985 and 1991 and a member of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics.[4] Later lifeSomasekaram wrote a number of books after retirement.[4] He died on 11 March 2010.[1][7] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 {{cite web|title=Fitzwilliam Journal 2012|url=http://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/mi-client/media/import/documents/Fitzwilliam2012Part3.pdf|publisher=Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512221145/http://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/mi-client/media/import/documents/Fitzwilliam2012Part3.pdf|archivedate=2014-05-12|df=}} {{s-start}}{{s-gov}}{{s-bef|before={{nowrap|E. M. Perera}}}}{{s-ttl|title=Surveyor General of Sri Lanka|years=1991–1992}}{{s-aft|after={{nowrap|S. Berugoda}}}}{{s-end}}{{Surveyor General of Sri Lanka}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Somasekaram, T.}}2. ^{{cite news|last=Somasekaram|first=T.|title=Memorial for IPKF|url=http://www.island.lk/2004/03/23/featur02.html|newspaper=The Island (Sri Lanka)|date=23 March 2004}} 3. ^{{cite news|last=Somasekaram|first=T.|title=Reconditioning the public service|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2002/04/06/fea03.html|newspaper=Daily News (Sri Lanka)|date=6 April 2002|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041222193424/http://www.dailynews.lk/2002/04/06/fea03.html|archivedate=22 December 2004|df=}} 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 {{cite news|last=Mahaarachchi|first=R.|title=Mapping the life of a fine man and outstanding Surveyor General|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100516/Plus/plus_08.html|newspaper=The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)|date=16 May 2010}} 5. ^1 {{cite web|title=258th Commencement|url=http://registrar.osu.edu/staff/commence_bulletins/au76_commence.pdf|publisher=Ohio State University|page=11|date=Autumn 1976}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Dr.T.Somasekaram former Surveyor General of Sri Lanka and Jaffna Hindu College Oldboy passed away|url=http://www.tamilsydney.com/content/view/2672/37/|publisher=Tamil Sydney|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305090352/http://www.tamilsydney.com/content/view/2672/37/|archivedate=2016-03-05|df=}} 7. ^1 {{cite news|title=Obituaries|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2010/03/12/main_Obituaries.asp|newspaper=Daily News (Sri Lanka)|date=12 March 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315152111/http://www.dailynews.lk/2010/03/12/main_Obituaries.asp|archivedate=15 March 2010|df=}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.survey.gov.lk/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=55&lang=en|publisher=Department of Survey (Sri Lanka)|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416050210/http://www.survey.gov.lk/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=55&lang=en|archivedate=2014-04-16|df=}} 9. ^{{cite web|title=About SISL|url=http://sisl.lk/about-us.html|publisher=The Surveyors' Institute of Sri Lanka|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130805124623/http://www.sisl.lk/about-us.html|archivedate=2013-08-05|df=}} 11 : 1934 births|2010 deaths|Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge|Alumni of Jaffna Hindu College|Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society|Ohio State University alumni|People associated with the University of Jaffna|Surveyors General of Sri Lanka|Sri Lanka Sikhamani|Sri Lankan Tamil geographers|Sri Lankan Tamil writers |
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