The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle for Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis’ 125th Birthday in India. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was born on 29th June 1893. He was an Indian scientist and applied 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. He founded the Indian Statistical Institute, and contributed to the design of large-scale sample surveys. Mahalanobis belonged to a family of Bengali landed gentry who lived in Bikrampur. His grandfather Gurucharan moved to Calcutta in 1854 and built up a business, starting a chemist shop in 1860. Many colleagues of Mahalanobis took an interest in statistics. An informal group developed in the Statistical Laboratory, which was located in his room at the Presidency College, Calcutta. On 17 December 1931 Mahalanobis called a meeting with Pramatha Nath Banerji. Mahalanobis died on 28 June 1972, a day before his seventy-ninth birthday. Even at this age, he was still active doing research work and discharging his duties as the Secretary and Director of the Indian Statistical Institute and as the Honorary Statistical Advisor to the Cabinet of the Government of India.
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