Dibrugarh in year 1910, along with two X-Ray machine (One 10MA and another 15MA). The X-Ray Machines were bought from England, 15 years after the discovery of X-Rays by Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1895–96. These two were the first X-Ray machines in India. The college is situated in the outskirts of city and set in the midst of tea estates. Building renovation and new building construction projects is underway, in joint collaboration with the North Eastern Council and the State Government of Assam, to upgrade the college to a premier medical institution. The college boast some of the best teachers
Multiple discovery independent discovery". Robert K. Merton defined such "multiples" as instances in which similar discoveries are made by scientists working independently of each other. Merton contrasted a "multiple" with a "singleton"—a discovery that has been made uniquely by a single scientist or group of scientists working together. As Merton said, "Sometimes the discoveries are simultaneous or almost so; sometimes a scientist will make a new discovery which, unknown to him, somebody else has made years before." Commonly cited examples of multiple independent discovery are the 17th-century independent formulation of calculus by Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and others, described by A.