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Who was the first Indian to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of London?
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- Srinivas Ramanujan
- A.C. Wadia
- C.V. Raman
- P.C. Mahalanobis
- Srinivas Ramanujan
Correct Option: B
Ardaseer Cursetjee (Wadia) was an Indian shipbuilder and engineer who is noted for having been the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is recorded as having introduced several (at the time) novel technologies to the city of Bombay (now Mumbai), including gas lighting, the sewing machine, steam pump driven irrigation and electroplating.