Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS was an Indian scientist and statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and for being one of the members o
Young Mahalanobis
Mahalanobis memorial at ISI Delhi
Mahalanobis on a 1993 stamp of India
Jagadish Chandra Bose
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Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a polymath with interests in biology, physics and writing science fiction. He was a pioneer in the investigation of radio microwave optics, made significant contributions
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
…graduating in 1908. He joined the Presidency College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, where he was taught by teachers who included Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Prafulla Chandra Ray. Others attending were Meghnad Saha, a year junior, and Subhas Chandra Bose, two years his junior at college. Mahalanobis…
J. C. Bose in 1897
Bose's 60 GHz microwave apparatus at the Bose Institute, Kolkata, India. His receiver (left) used a galena crystal detector inside a horn antenna and galvanometer to detect microwaves. Bose invented the crystal radio detector, waveguide, horn antenna, and other apparatus used at microwave frequencies.
Jagadish Chandra Bose with other prominent scientists from Calcutta University.
Crescograph, Bose Institute, Kolkata