Background
Jyoti Bhusan Chatterjea was born on 16 February 1919 in Kolkata, the capital city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Jyoti Bhusan Chatterjea graduated in medicine from Calcutta Medical College of the University of Calcutta in 1942 and secured the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the same institution in 1949.
Career
Starting his career as an assistant research officer at Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine and served as a professor of hematology from 1956 till he was appointed as the director of the institution in 1966. He was holding that position when he died on 29 February 1972, at the age of 53, survived by his wife and a daughter.
Achievements
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Jyoti Bhusan Chatterjea received the Coates Medal of the University of Calcutta in 1958 and the Barclay Medal of the Asiatic Society in 1963. In between, the Indian National Science Academy elected him as a fellow in 1960. The Indian Council of Medical Research honored him with the Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize in 1964, the same year as he was elected as a fellow by the National Academy of Medical Sciences and he received the Minto Medal the next year. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1966.
Membership
Jyoti Bhusan Chatterjea was an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Indian National Science Academy. He was also a fellow of a number of international medical societies which included the American College of Physicians, Royal College of Pathologists, Swiss Society of Hematology, German Society of Hemotology and Oncology, Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists, Indian Anthropological Society and Indian Public Health Association.
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Education
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1942
Career
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1956 - 1966
Awards
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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1966), India
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 1966.The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 1966.