Background
Punyabrata Bhattacharya was born in 1910 in India.
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Punyabrata Bhattacharya
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Punyabrata Bhattacharya obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree (1938) from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Career
Punyabrata Bhattacharya was an assistant director of the Indian Verterinary Research Institute, Izzatnagar. He was a livestock development adviser and animal husbandry commissioner to the Government of India. Member of National Commission on Agriculture. He was a president of the Zoology Section of Indian Science Congress (1958).
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Bhattacharya was a pioneering researcher on animal genetics and animal reproductive biology in India. He was responsible for initiation and development of research on artificial insemination and its introduction in the field on a countrywide basis. His work on the behaviour of ring chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster and on the control of ovulation in cow by hormonal treatment was highly acclaimed.
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1938