Welcome to your QUIZ 71: INDIAN SCIENTISTS-3
1.
The world's first full-face replant operation was done on Sandeep Kaur, a nine-year old girl whose face was ripped off in a threshing machine accident. The replant was done by which doctor?
2.
Which Indian physicist did important research on the ionosphere and proposed the idea that ultraviolet light from the Sun creates the middle or E layer of the ionosphere?
3.
Which Indian scientist, married to a Russian woman and became a Soviet citizen in 1936, is regarded as the father of Chemmotology ( the science of motor oils and lubricants)?
4.
For which disease, the second-largest parasitic killer in the world after malaria, did Upendra Nath Brahmachari discover a drug and saved millions of lives in Bengal and Assam?
5.
Name the Indian aeronautical engineer and space scientist who succeeded Vikram Sarabhai, the founder of the Indian Space Programme, as Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO in 1972?
6.
Satyendra Nath Bose collaborated with Einstein to propound the Bose-Einstein Statistics which governs the behaviour of a class of subatomic particles known as
7.
On 11th June 1998, who performed India's first live-beaming of heart surgery on six heart patients at the Escorts Geart Institute& Research Centre, New Delhi, which was beamed live to hundreds of cardiac specialists in San Francisco and California in USA?
8.
Which India-born American biochemist, well known for creating a biology-based solution for cleaning up toxic spills, was declared the Scientist of the Year' sward in 1975 y Industrial Research Organization of the Unites States, and was awarded the 'Padma Shri' by the Government of India in 2007 for his work in genetic engineering technology?
9.
Near which mountain in Swiss Alps was Air India' Boeing 707 Kanchenjunga crashed resulting in the death of Indian Nuclear Physicist Homi Jehangir Bhabha on 24th January 1966?
10.
Who was the first Director of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 1940, and held this post till his death on 1st January 1955?
