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How many Indian Scientists are elected for US Royal Society recently?
A
3
B
2
C
1
D
5
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The three Indian-origin scientists are Krishna Chatterjee (University of Cambridge), Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford) and Subhash Khot (New York University).

Detailed explanation-2: -LONDON: Three Indian-origin scientists have been elected fellows of the Royal Society, Britain’s independent fellowship of many of the world’s most eminent scientists, for their “outstanding contributions to science".

Detailed explanation-3: -Answers. Jagdish Chandra Bose was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of London for his contribution in the field of Plant Physiology and Physics.

Detailed explanation-4: -The honour of being the first Indian Fellow of the Royal Society goes to Ardaseer Cursetjee (1808-77), marine engineer at Bombay, who was elected on 27 May 1841 (figure 1).

Detailed explanation-5: -As many as 195, 605 scientists are included in the career-long database and 200, 409 scientists are included in the single recent year dataset. This version (4) is based on the 1st September 2022 snapshot from Scopus, updated to end of citation year 2021.

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