CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Mazumdar-Shaw will be joining RSE’s current Fellowship of around 1,700 Fellows who are recognised as being some of the greatest thinkers, researchers and practitioners working in or with Scotland today.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and letters, judged to be “eminently distinguished in their subject". This society received a royal charter in 1783, allowing for its expansion.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Royal Society of Edinburgh recognises, supports and mobilises expertise from across academia, business and public service for the benefit of Scotland and the wider world. Our Fellows from academia, business and public service are among the most distinguished in their fields.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was just few weeks after the incident - on 28 February, 1918 - Ramanujan, just 31, became the youngest Fellow in the history of the Royal Society. Way back in 1841, Ardaseer Cursetjee, a shipbuilder and engineer was the first Indian to be elected to the Royal Society and Ramanujan became the second.