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Google Doodle Celebrates -  Kamala Sohonie's 112th Birthday | कमला सोहोनी के 112वें जन्मदिन पर गूगल डूडल मना रहा है Today's Doodle commemorates the 112th birthday of Dr. Kamala Sohonie, an Indian biochemist. During a time when Indian women were conspicuously underrepresented in scientific disciplines, she was the first Indian woman to earn a Ph.D. in a scientific field. Dr. Sohonie helped pave the way for future Indian women to overcome gender bias and pursue their ambitions by breaking barriers and proving her doubters wrong. According to family records, Dr. Sohonie was born on this day in 1911 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh to parents who were renowned chemists. Wanting to follow in the footsteps of her father and uncle, she majored in chemistry and physics at Bombay University and graduated first in her class in 1933. She was the first woman admitted to the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), but was subjected to strict conditions during her first year because the institute's...