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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis has received more than 2,289,625 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis is the 549th most popular physicist (down from 539th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from India (down from 431st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis ranks 549 out of 851. Before him are Alfred Perot, Artem Alikhanian, Heinz von Foerster, Norman Holter, Lev Artsimovich, and C. P. Snow. After him are Theodore Lyman IV, David Deutsch, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Georg Hermann Quincke, Albert Betz, and Leopoldo Nobili.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis ranks 162. Before him are Karimeh Abbud, T. H. Marshall, I. A. Richards, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Walter Noddack, and Donald Lippincott. After him are Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Jacobi, Harald Cramér, Fay Bainter, Costante Girardengo, and Elisaveta Bagriana. Among people deceased in 1972, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis ranks 133. Before him are Stanislaus Kobierski, W. Ross Ashby, Lee Beom-seok, Alfons Gorbach, Günter Eich, and Miriam Hopkins. After him are Deniz Gezmiş, Louise Arner Boyd, Jinichi Kusaka, Antal Szabó, Abeid Karume, and Gottfried Fuchs.

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In India

Among people born in India, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis ranks 459 out of 1,861. Before him are Pingali Venkayya (1876), Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), Jaswant Singh (1938), Chand Bibi (1550), Firaq Gorakhpuri (1896), and Nagarjun (1911). After him are Anupam Kher (1955), Bhalchandra Nemade (1938), Madan Lal Dhingra (1883), Shammi Kapoor (1931), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), and Janaki Ammal (1897).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis ranks 8. Before him are Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Anna Mani (1918), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), and Jayant Narlikar (1938). After him are Tom Kibble (1932), Raja Ramanna (1925), Daulat Singh Kothari (1906), Abhay Ashtekar (1949), Narinder Singh Kapany (1926), and Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932).

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