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Google doodles to celebrate Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis' 125th anniversary

| @indiablooms | Jun 29, 2018, at 04:02 am

New York, June 29 (IBNS): Popular search engine Google on Friday designed its homepage with a doodle to mark noted statistician and scientist Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis' 125th anniversary.

Google said the doodle has been designed by  Nishant Choksi.

Google's decorated its homepage with a colourful doodle.

Mahalanobi 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

Google often designs its homepage with doodle to mark special days, events and birth and death anniversaries of noted personalities.

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