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MAHATMA GANDHI

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                                                  MAHATMA GANDHI                Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi   :-   October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the leader of the  Indian independence movement  against  British rule . Employing  nonviolent   civil disobedience , Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.   The   applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa is now used worldwide. In India, he is also called Bapu ji ( Gujarati : endearment for father ,  papa and Gandhi ji. He is unofficially called the  Father of the Nation . Born and raised in a  Hindu   merchant caste  family in coastal  Gujarat ,  western India , and trained in law at the  Inner Temple , London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers t

MICHAEL YOUNG

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                                                      MICHAEL YOUNG               Michael Young  :- born September 5, 1994 is an American basketball player for the  Washington Wizards  of the  National Basketball Association  (NBA). He was signed on a two-way contract with the  NBA G League . He played  college basketball  for the  Pittsburgh Pathers  of the  Atlantic Coast Conference . Young went to  St. Benedict's Prep  in  Newark, New Jersey  and graduated in 2013 where he led Saint Benedict's to the National High School Invitational and finished runner-up, and also the New Jersey Prep High School championship. During his senior year he led his team to a No. 2 ranking from both  USA Today  and  MaxPreps . He helped guide St. Benedicts to the NHSI National Championship they finished as the runner up when they lost to  Montverde Academy  in the championship game 65-67.During his senior campaign he was invited to the  Jordan Brand Classic at the  Barclays Center  where he pu

MICHAEL ROSBASH

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                                                    MICHAEL ROSBASH        Michael Morris Rosbash:-   born March 7, 1944 is an  American   geneticist  and  chronobiologist . Rosbash is a professor at  Brandeis University  and investigator at the  Howard Hughes Medical Institute . Rosbash's research group cloned the Drosophila  period gene  in 1984 and proposed the Transcription Translation Negative Feedback Loop for  circadian clocks  in 1990. In 1998, they discovered the  cycle  gene,  clock  gene, and  cryptochrome   photoreceptor  in Drosophila through the use of  forward genetics , by first identifying the phenotype of a mutant and then determining the genetics behind the mutation. Rosbash was elected to the  National Academy of Sciences  in 2003. Along with  Michael W. Young  and  Jeffrey C. Hall , he was awarded the 2017  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm            Rosbash’s res