Sorry, Los Angeles, India invented the nose job

Sorry, Los Angeles, you didn't invent the nose job. Well at least not according to a new Science and Technology Heritage Exhibition that opened last week at New Delhi's National Science Center. So who did?

It was Indian surgeon Susutra. According to Channel News Asia, "The plastic surgery claim relates to Susruta, who lived 150 years before Greece's 'father of medicine,' Hippocrates, and who lends his name to a number of modern Indian clinics." N.R. Iyer, director of the science center, said, "The surgeon pioneered nose reconstruction in northern India, which entailed removing skin from the forehead of a person to re-build the facial feature."

Physicist Manas Bagchi, who helped set up the science heritage exhibition, says that Indians also claim to have invented the mathematical zero. But who cares when Susruta pioneered the nose job, turning zeros into heroes.