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What's common between India's greatest scientists - CV Raman, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy, Megnad Saha, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, Satyendranath Bose, P.C Mahalonobis et al. They went to #CalcuttaUniversity. Who proposed setting up India's first autonomous University?..(1/2) 
(2/n) #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee. Way before #NobelPrize was envisoned in early 1900s, in the mid 1800 this very man had expressed his interest to set up a global award in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics & Philosophy. It was called Joykrishna Gold award and the 1st.....
(3/n) recipient was Sir James Jeans, the father of #British #Cosmology. Although the vision of this award was set by Joykrishna Mukherjee, it was actually made operational much later by his son #RajaPearyMohanMukherjee. Joykrishna in the mid 1800s envisioned that India should...
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We celebrate all the women who have had a pioneering role in advancing science and health!
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👩⚕️👩🏾🎓👩🏽🔬👩🏻💻👩🏿🏫
We celebrate all the women who have had a pioneering role in advancing science and health!
👉bit.ly/2EBlu0k
@WHOWPRO @WHOEMRO @WHOSEARO @WHOAFRO @pahowho @WHO_Europe @UN @UNESCO @DrTedros On #ScienceDay, let's remember Florence Nightingale, a 19th- century statistician and founder of modern nursing, who understood the benefits of hygiene and sanitation in preventing disease. bit.ly/2EBlu0k
@WHOWPRO @WHOEMRO @WHOSEARO @WHOAFRO @pahowho @WHO_Europe @UN @UNESCO @DrTedros On #ScienceDay, let's remember Fe del Mundo, a paediatrician from the #Philippines, who did pioneering work on infectious diseases including #dengue. She was the first female student at Harvard Medical School. bit.ly/2EBlu0k
