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451. Fact
Detenu
Persons who dies without making any will.

452. Fact
Intestate
A person who dies without making any will.

453. Fact
Libel
A published statement damaging to a person's reputation or business.

454. Fact
Mandamus
A writ issued by a higher court to a lower court directing it to perform a specified act pertaining to its office.

455. Fact
Plaintiff
A person who, as complainant, brings a suit in a court of law.

456. Fact
Summons
A directive from a court of law ordering a person to appear before it at a specified date, time and place.

457. Fact
Writ
A written order by a supreme court or high court directing the state or a lowest court to act or abstain from acting in a particular case.

458. Fact
Aryabhatta
He lived between 476 and 520 a.d. He was a great mathematician and an astronomer. The first indian satellite was named after him.

459. Fact
Bhagavantam
His contribution to radio astronomy and cosmic rays in noteworthy.

460. Fact
Bhaskaracharya
Born in 1114 a.d., bhaskaracharya was a great hindu mathematician and astronomer. He had a foresight on the modern theory of conventions.

461. Fact
S.s. Bhatnagar
A great indian scientist who lived between 1895 and 1955. He was the first director general of council of scientific and industrial research.

462. Fact
J.c.bose
He was an eminent physicist and botanist. He founded bose research institute, calcutta. He invented crescograph and lived between 1858 and 1937.

463. Fact
S.n. Bose
He expounded the bose einstein theory which deals with the detection of a group of nuclear particles - named after him 'boson'. His contribution to planck's law is laudable.

464. Fact
Dr. S.chandrasekhar
An indian-born american, who won nobel prize for physics in 1983. According to his theory, the old stars just collapse and disappear in the light of denser stars of low light popularly called chandrasekhar limit.

465. Fact
Charaka
He lived between 80 and 180 a.d. He was a court physician of king kanishka. His writings on hindu medicine are invaluable.

466. Fact
Dhanvantri
He was a great physician during the period of chandragupta vikramaditya. His period was between 375 and 413 a.d.

467. Fact
Hargobind khorana
He created an artificial gene and deciphered genetic code. He was awarded nobel prize for medicine in 1968.

468. Fact
Homi j.bhaba
He largely contributed to the development of atomic physics. He was the first chairman of atomic energy commission. He died in a plane crash in 1966 over alps.

469. Fact
Joshi
Prof. S.s.joshi's works on physical and chemical reaction under electrical discharge on active nitrogen, colloids, hydrogen peroxide are noteworthy.

470. Fact
Nagarjuna
A great buddhist philosopher and chemist. His theory on extraction of copper and metallic oxides are mention-worthy.

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