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Flashcards by Gurmeet Kaur, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Gurmeet Kaur
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| 1. He was the Father of Plastic Surgery. | SUSHRUTA Sushruta was an ancient Indian physician known as the main author of The Sushruta Samhita,one of the most important surviving ancient treatises on medicine and is considered a foundational text of Ayurveda. |
| 2. He was the first physician to present the concept of Digestion and Immunity. | CHARAKA Charaka He was one of the principal contributors to Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Ancient India. He is known as the compiler or editor of the medical treatise entitled Charaka Samhita. Born in 300 BC, Charaka has been identified as a native of Kashmir. |
| 3. He was the founder of Yoga System and the author of Yoga Sutra. | Patañjali was a sage in ancient India, thought to be the author of a number of Sanskrit works. The greatest of these are the Yoga Sutras, a classical yoga text. |
| 4. He was the first person to claim that the Earth is round and it rotates on its axis creating day. | ARYABHATTA was the first of the major mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the Āryabhaṭīya and the Arya-siddhanta. |
| 5. He was the mathematician who first framed the rules for operation of zero. | |
| 6. He was a great astronomer and mathematician in the history of the science who measured the skies. | Bhaskara was born in Bijapur in Karnataka. He was the leader of a cosmic observatory at Ujjain, the main mathematical centre of ancient India. |
| 7. He is recognized as the Father of Indian Chemical Industry. | |
| 8. He is known in the scientific world for his contribution to the study of the Ionosphere. | SISIR KUMAR MITRA, an acclaimed radio physicist is most well known for his treatise The Upper Atmosphere (1947) — which details his contributions to the field of ionospheric studies. A crater on moon has been named after him.( Name of the crater 'Mitra') |
| 9. She was an Indian mathematician, writer and mental calculator, popularly known as the "Human Computer". | Shakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 – 21 April 2013) strove to simplify numerical calculations for students. Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records. |
| 10. She was the first Indian female physician. | Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi (31 March 1865 – 26 February 1887). She was also the first woman in India to complete her studies in western medicine from the United States. The Venus crater named 'Joshee' is a tribute to her. |
| 11. She was the first Indian woman to receive a PhD in a scientific discipline. | Kamala Sohonie (18 June 1911 – 28 June 1998)was a pioneering Indian biochemist who in 1939 became the first Indian woman to receive a PhD in a scientific discipline. |
| 12. She was the first Indian woman to visit Antarctica. | Dr. Aditi Pant Brave Indian Lady * She alone made India proud by dominating all other men to visit Antarctica in 1983. *Lowest temperature ever recorded was -89.2 degree celcius where humans can't survive . |
| 13. First woman engineer in India. |
Rajeshwari Chatterjee (1922 – 2010)
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| 14. She is known as the Mother of Botony in India. | Janaki Ammal (4 November 1897 – 7 February 1984) was an Indian botanist who worked on plant breeding. Her most notable work involved studies on hybrid sugarcane and the eggplant (brinjal) |
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