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Kamala Sohonie earned a PhD in biochemistry from Cambridge in 1939, becoming the first Indian woman to receive a doctorate in a scientific discipline. She discovered that cytochrome C is present in all plant cells and later studied the nutritional value of foods like Neera.
Key contributions
- Discovered the role of cytochrome C in plant cells
- Research on nutrition of pulses, rice and Neera (palm sap)
- First woman director of the Royal Institute of Science, Bombay