{"id":34038,"date":"2017-11-06T12:10:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T12:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=34038"},"modified":"2017-11-06T12:10:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T12:10:57","slug":"34038-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/34038-2\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Top Young Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Who amongst the following recently got the title of being America&#8217;s top young scientist? <\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Anita Kaur<br \/>\n(b) Sunil Suri<br \/>\n(c) Gitanjali Rao<br \/>\n(d) Geeta Sanyal<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (c)<br \/>\nRelated Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On October 17, 2017, Indian-American Gitanjali Rao won the &#8216;Discovery Education contest and 3M Young Scientist Challenge&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>This award has been given to her to develop a sensor that can detect lead levels in water better than traditional methods.<\/li>\n<li>GitaJangli named the device after the &#8216;Tethys&#8217;-Greek goddess of pure water.<\/li>\n<li>This device can be moved anywhere and connecting with mobile app can be used to detect the amount of lead in the water immediately.<\/li>\n<li>This was developed in response to learning about the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan USA, in 2014-15.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/An-11-year-old-has-become-Americas-Top-Young-Scientist-for-her-sensor-detecting-lead-in-water\/articleshow\/61135594.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/An-11-year-old-has-become-Americas-Top-Young-Scientist-for-her-sensor-detecting-lead-in-water\/articleshow\/61135594.cms<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/journal.peerscientist.com\/11-year-old-gitanjali-rao-won-americas-top-young-scientist-award-sensor-detecting-lead-water\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/journal.peerscientist.com\/11-year-old-gitanjali-rao-won-americas-top-young-scientist-award-sensor-detecting-lead-water\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/hindi\/international-41689687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/hindi\/international-41689687<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who amongst the following recently got the title of being America&#8217;s top young scientist? (a) Anita Kaur (b) Sunil Suri (c) Gitanjali Rao (d) Geeta Sanyal Answer: (c) Related Facts: On October 17, 2017, Indian-American Gitanjali Rao won the &#8216;Discovery Education contest and 3M Young Scientist Challenge&#8217;. This award has been given to her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":34005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-34038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}