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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

1893 - 1972

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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS (29 June 1893 – 28 June 1972) was an Indian scientist and statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and for being one of the members of the first Planning Commission of free India. He made pioneering studies in anthropometry in India. He founded the Indian Statistical Institute, and contributed to the design of large-scale sample surveys. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis is the 588th most popular physicist (down from 549th in 2019), the 555th most popular biography from India (down from 459th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis ranks 588 out of 851. Before him are Antonio Pacinotti, Sergey Kapitsa, Georg Adolf Erman, Otto Lehmann, Sumio Iijima, and Michael Berry. After him are Kenneth Bainbridge, John Henry Schwarz, Artem Alikhanian, Frank J. Tipler, John D. Barrow, and Evelyn Fox Keller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis ranks 192. Before him are Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charles Delporte, Haykanoush Danielyan, Donald Lippincott, Aleksandr Gauk, and George Hodgson. After him are Ernst Grünfeld, Marcel Minnaert, Norman Manley, Christopher Kelk Ingold, Marguerite Broquedis, and Chang Taek-sang. Among people deceased in 1972, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis ranks 161. Before him are Roberto Clemente, Jinichi Kusaka, Oleksandr Korniychuk, Edgar G. Ulmer, Gottfried Fuchs, and Reginald Owen. After him are Leo G. Carroll, Franciska Gaal, Gavriil Popov, Meena Kumari, Ferde Grofé, and Cecil Day-Lewis.

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In India

Among people born in India, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis ranks 555 out of 1,861. Before him are Arvind Krishna (1962), Jasraj (1930), Jagjivan Ram (1908), Rekha (1954), Anupam Kher (1955), and Supriya Pathak (1961). After him are Surdas (1478), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), MS Dhoni (1981), Meena Kumari (1933), Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805), and Shiva Rajkumar (1961).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis ranks 9. Before him are Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Anna Mani (1918), Tom Kibble (1932), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Jayant Narlikar (1938), and Vikram Sarabhai (1919). After him are Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932), Abhay Ashtekar (1949), Daulat Singh Kothari (1906), G. N. Ramachandran (1922), Raja Ramanna (1925), and Narinder Singh Kapany (1926).

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