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Kamala Sohonie

1912 - 1998

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Kamala Sohonie (18 June 1911 – 28 June 1998) was an Indian biochemist who in 1939 became the first Indian woman to receive a PhD in a scientific discipline. Her acceptance into and work at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, paved the way for women to be accepted into the institution for the first time in its history. Her research delved into the effects of vitamins and into the nutritive values of pulses, paddy, and groups of food items consumed by some of the poorest sections of the Indian population. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kamala Sohonie has received more than 2,309,692 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Kamala Sohonie is the 363rd most popular chemist (up from 415th in 2019), the 329th most popular biography from India (up from 377th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Kamala Sohonie ranks 363 out of 509. Before her are Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, Louis Le Chatelier, George Washington Carver, Brunó Ferenc Straub, Kazimierz Fajans, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan. After her are Louis Camille Maillard, Carl Djerassi, Paul Ulrich Villard, Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, Otto Schott, and Jennifer Doudna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Kamala Sohonie ranks 140. Before her are Kurt Sanderling, Rihei Sano, Martin Schwarzschild, Kristina Söderbaum, Charles Addams, and Béla Király. After her are John Cheever, Georges Franju, Lev Kopelev, Vladimir Bakarić, Hamengkubuwono IX, and Günter Wand. Among people deceased in 1998, Kamala Sohonie ranks 109. Before her are Aymoré Moreira, Barry Goldwater, Antonio Quarracino, John Chadwick, Juan José Nogués, and Mancur Olson. After her are Genrich Altshuller, Beatrice Wood, Anatoly Rybakov, Joan Brossa, Olivier Gendebien, and Yuri Artyukhin.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kamala Sohonie ranks 329 out of 1,493. Before her are Debendranath Tagore (1817), Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), Chandra Shekhar (1927), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), Rana Sanga (1482), and U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932). After her are Rani Padmini (null), Mad Mike Hoare (1919), Rajendra Chola I (1000), Abbé Faria (1756), Joseph Vaz (1651), and Alamgir II (1699).

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Among CHEMISTS In India

Among chemists born in India, Kamala Sohonie ranks 2. Before her are Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952). After her are Asima Chatterjee (1917), C. N. R. Rao (1934), Yellapragada Subbarow (1895), and Darshan Ranganathan (1941).

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