CHEMIST

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 2,326,046 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Kamala Sohonie is the 277th most popular chemist (up from 363rd in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from India (up from 326th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Kamala Sohonie ranks 277 out of 602. Before her are Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Vladimir Markovnikov, Richard Abegg, William Henry Perkin, Martin Rodbell, and William Henry. After her are Akira Yoshino, Robert H. Grubbs, Georg Brandt, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Henry Taube, and Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Kamala Sohonie ranks 78. Before her are Julia Child, Taiichi Ohno, Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Abbé Pierre, Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, and Chaïm Perelman. After her are Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Jacques Ellul, Frank Oppenheimer, Hugh Griffith, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, and José Ferrer. Among people deceased in 1998, Kamala Sohonie ranks 56. Before her are James Earl Ray, Sonny Bono, Ernst-Günther Schenck, Cozy Powell, Martin Rodbell, and Lloyd Bridges. After her are Verner Panton, Gulzarilal Nanda, Fritz Honka, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Wolf Vostell, and Anne Desclos.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kamala Sohonie ranks 185 out of 1,861. Before her are Dnyaneshwar (1275), S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Dharmendra (1935), Guru Arjan (1563), Jayadeva (1170), and Ahilyabai Holkar (1725). After her are Anthony de Mello (1931), Narayana Guru (1855), Kishore Kumar (1929), George Alencherry (1945), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), and B. K. S. Iyengar (1918).

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Among CHEMISTS In India

Among chemists born in India, Kamala Sohonie ranks 1. After her are Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), Asima Chatterjee (1917), C. N. R. Rao (1934), Yellapragada Subbarow (1895), and Darshan Ranganathan (1941).

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