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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS is an Indian scientist and statistician. He is best remembered for Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and one of the members of India's first free planning committee. He did pioneering research on anthropology in India. He founded the Indian Institute of Statistics and helped design large-scale sample surveys. For his contributions, Mahalanobis has been considered the father of modern statistics in India.
BornJune 29, 1893, Kolkata, West Bengal, British India
DiedJune 28, 1972, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
FieldsMathematics, statistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge, Indian Statistical Institute
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta (B.Sc.), King's College, Cambridge (B.A.)
Doctoral studentsSamarendra Roy
Other notable studentsRaj Chandra Bose, C.R. Rao
Known forMahalanobis distance, Feldman–Mahalanobis model
Notable awardsPadma Vibhushan (1968), Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE, 1942), Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Weldon Memorial Prize
SpouseNirmal Kumari Mahalanobis

About Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Mathematician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was born in India on June 29, 1893. He dies at the age of 78, on June 28, 1972.

Mahalanobis distance is a statistical term named for a scientist who created the Indian Statistical Institute. In 1950, he served as President of the Indian Science Congress.

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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis before becoming famous

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1893 is also the year of Serpent (蛇) in the Chinese Zodiac.

At Edinburgh University, he studied physiology.

Achievement of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

For his services to science, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's highest civilian honor.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Gurucharan, his grandpa, founded a pharmacy shop in 1860.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Collabed with

He worked as a secretary for Poet Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel Laureate in Literature.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Income & Net worth

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