Debabarta Chatterjee

Debabarta Chatterjee
Born(1911-04-02)2 April 1911
Hugli-Chuchura, India
Died24 September 1960(1960-09-24) (aged 49)
Shibpur
NationalityIndian
CitizenshipIndia
Alma materPresidency University, Kolkata
University of Edinburgh
Known forendemic plants of India
AwardsSpecial Centenary Medal of the Société botanique de France
Brühl Memorial Medal of The Asiatic Society, 1950
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsMandalay University
Cotton University
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Indian Botanic Garden
Doctoral advisorWilliam Wright Smith
Author abbrev. (botany)Chatterjee

Debabarta Chatterjee (1911–1960) was a botanist from India, whose primary scholarly focus was the endemic flora of India.[1]

Life

Chatterjee was born in Hugli-Chuchura, India on 2 April 1911. He received his Master of Science (M.Sc.) from Presidency University, Kolkata (then called Presidency College) in 1937. He conducted his doctoral work at the University of Edinburgh while being mentored by Sir William Wright Smith and received his Ph.D. in 1939. His first professional posting was as a lecturer at Mandalay University (then called Mandalay College) in Burma. Following the invasion of Burma by Japan in 1942 he moved to become a lecturer at Cotton University (then called Cotton College, Guwahati) in Assam, India. In 1946 he became the botanist for India at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. From 1949 to 1955 he served as systematic botanist at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in Delhi. In 1954 he served as the Vice President of the International Botanical Congress in Paris. In 1955 he became the superintendent of the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden in Shibpur. On 24 September 1960 he was shot and killed by another member of the Botanic Garden's staff.[2][3]

Work

His Ph.D. thesis was entitled "Endemic Flora of India and Burma" was published by the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.[4] During his career he published on topics including the systematics of endemic plant species in India and Burma, domestication of rice and cultivation of wheat.[5]

The standard author abbreviation Chatterjee is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

Awards

In recognition of his botanical scholarship he was awarded the Special Centenary Medal of the Société botanique de France and in 1955 the Brühl Memorial Medal of The Asiatic Society (then called the Asiatic Society of Bengal).[2]

Legacy

He is the authority for at least 33 taxa including: IPNI. List of plant names with authority Chatterjee.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "Index of Botanists: Chatterjee, Debabarta". Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries. n.d. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b Chatterjee, D (1958). "Tropical Vegetation of Eastern India". Study of Tropical Vegetation, Proceedings of the Kandy Symposium. Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. pp. 61–67.
  3. ^ Bor, N. L. (1960). "Dr. D. Chatterjee". Nature. 188 (4748): 364. Bibcode:1960Natur.188..364B. doi:10.1038/188364a0. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 44686795.
  4. ^ Chatterjee, D. (1940). "Studies on the endemic flora of India and Burma". J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal. Sci. 5: 19–67.
  5. ^ Dietlinde Hachmann (n.d.). "100 years of Deboo". Mein Wunscherbe. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Chatterjee.

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