| Name(s) |
PRASANTA CHANDRA
MAHALANOBIS |
| Date of
Birth |
June 29, 1893
– Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
| Date of
death |
June 28, 1972
- Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
|
Identity |
Indian scientist
and applied statistician |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- December 17, 1931:
He founded the Indian Statistical
Institute at Calcutta.
- 1944:
He received Weldon Medal from Oxford
University.
- 1945:
Fellow of the Royal Society, London.
- 1950:
He became President of Indian
Science Congress.
- 1951:
He became Fellow of the Econometric
Society, U.S.A.
- 1952:
He became Fellow of the Pakistan
Statistical Association.
- 1954:
He became Honorary Fellow of the
Royal Statistical Society, U.K.
- 1957:
He received the Sir Deviprasad
Sarvadhikari Gold Medal.
- 1958:
Foreign member of the Soviet Academy
of Sciences.
- 1959:
He became Honorary Fellow of King's
College, Cambridge.
- 1961:
Fellow of the American Statistical
Association.
- 1961: He
received the Durgaprasad Khaitan
Gold Medal.
- 1968:
He was honoured by the Govt
of India with Padma Vibhushan
Award.
- 1968:
He received the Srinivasa Ramanujam
Gold Medal.
|
|
Other Events &
Developments |
- He is best remembered for the
Mahalanaobis Distance,
a statistical measure.
- He made pioneering studies in
anthropometry in India.
- He also started a new journal in
statistics called Sankhya.
- He established a division within
the ISI called the National Sample
Survey (NSS). The NSS grew quickly
into an agency noted for its use of
continuing sample surveys for the
collection of socioeconomic and
demographic data that covered the
whole country. This division, along
with Mahalanobis, played such an
incredibly vital role in the
creation of the second five-year
economic plan in India that the
government took over NSS and now it
functions as a necessary part of the
Ministry of Planning.
- He had over 200 published
scientific articles along with many
non-technical articles in Bengali
and English.
|
|
Commemorations |
His birth anniversary is celebrated as “NATIONAL
STATISTICAL DAY" |
