Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 02:55am on 29 Jun 2025,Sunday Education
Kamala Sohonie (1911–1998) became the first Indian woman to earn a PhD in a scientific discipline in 1939, following her defiance of gender bias at IISc. Initially denied admission by C.V. Raman solely for being female, she persisted until granted conditional entry in 1933. Excelling in research on milk proteins, she earned an MSc with distinction and persuaded Raman to open IISc to women a year later. Awarded a scholarship, she pursued groundbreaking biochemical work at Cambridge, discovering cytochrome C. Returning to India, she advanced public health through nutritional research on Neera, later leading Bombay’s Institute of Science. (PC: Times Now)
