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Janaki Ammal

1897 - 1984

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Edavalath Kakkat Janaki Ammal (formally known as Janaki Ammal) (4 November 1897 – 7 February 1984) was an Indian botanist who worked on plant breeding, cytogenetics and phytogeography. Her most notable work involved studies on sugarcane and the eggplant (brinjal). She also worked on the cytogenetics of a range of plants and co-authored the Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants (1945) with C.D. Darlington. She took an interest in ethnobotany and plants of medicinal and economic value from the rain forests of Kerala, India. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Janaki Ammal is the 101st most popular biologist (up from 536th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from India (up from 465th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Janaki Ammal ranks 101 out of 1,097. Before her are Aaron Ciechanover, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Pierre André Latreille, Nikolai Vavilov, Erwin Neher, and Jan Evangelista Purkyně. After her are Ulisse Aldrovandi, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Georges J. F. Köhler, Philip Miller, Jean-Henri Fabre, and Coenraad Jacob Temminck.

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Among people born in 1897, Janaki Ammal ranks 36. Before her are Pola Negri, Georg Wittig, Kurt Daluege, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Karl-Otto Koch, and Soong Mei-ling. After her are Karl Gebhardt, Otto Strasser, Jimmie Rodgers, Hasso von Manteuffel, Plaek Phibunsongkhram, and John Cockcroft. Among people deceased in 1984, Janaki Ammal ranks 25. Before her are Martin Ryle, Pyotr Kapitsa, Vicente Aleixandre, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Martin Niemöller, and Ray Kroc. After her are Karl Wolff, Anna Anderson, Sam Peckinpah, Lionel Robbins, Jiro Miyake, and Stanley Milgram.

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In India

Among people born in India, Janaki Ammal ranks 104 out of 1,861. Before her are N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946), Ramana Maharshi (1879), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Harsha (590), Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), and Premchand (1880). After her are Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924), Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I (1671), Satyajit Ray (1921), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), C. R. Rao (1920), and Rajiv Gandhi (1944).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In India

Among biologists born in India, Janaki Ammal ranks 1. After her are Salim Ali (1896), Robert Swinhoe (1836), Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914), and Sunetra Gupta (1965).

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