Debabrata Chatterjee
Debabrata Chatterjee ( Bengali : দেবব্রত চট্টোপাধ্যায় , Debabrata Caṭṭopādhyāẏ ; born April 2, 1911 in Chinsurah ; † September 24, 1960 in Calcutta ) was an Indian botanist and director of the Indian Botanical Gardens in Haora . He was a specialist in the identification and classification of cultivated plants. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Chatterjee ".
Life
Chatterjee, Bengali spelling: Chattopadhyay, was born as the eldest son of 10 children in Chinsurah ( Bengal ). His parents were Lakshminarayan Chattopadhyay, a teacher of Sanskrit, philosophy and English and the director of the Cotton College of Guwahati ( Assam ), his mother was Sati Devi Chattopadhyay. They had 3 sons and 7 daughters.
Chatterjee received his first botanical training at the Presidency College in Calcutta and received an M. Sc. in botany with distinction. He then moved to Edinburgh University , where he worked for two years under Sir William Wright Smith . He received his Ph. D., an academic doctorate, with a thesis on the treatment of endemic plants in India. His doctoral thesis was published in 1939 in the "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol. VV".
On his return from Edinburgh he worked in the herbarium of the Indian Botanical Gardens. He then went from 1940 to 1942 as a lecturer in botany at Mandalay College, today: Mandalay University in Burma .
When the Japanese invaded Burma in 1942, he escaped and then taught for four years at Cotton College in Guwahati.
In 1946 he became a botanist in the Royal Botanic Gardens , London , where he worked for India . During this time at the Kew Herbarium, he published articles on new plants, their classification and naming. In 1948 he was asked by the Indian government to attend the Symposium on Botanical Nomenclature in Utrecht, Holland.
In 1949 he returned to India and was appointed to the post of systemic botanist at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in Delhi for six years . During this time he published other articles on the origin of cultivated rice and other cultivated plants. He also promoted the classification of cultivated Indian wheat.
Chatterjee married Indira Ganguly. She died on July 30, 1953. The couple had one daughter.
On August 1, 1955, he succeeded K. Biswas as head of the botanical garden in Haora. Debabrata Chatterjee was shot dead in his botanical garden office.
Awards and honors
Chatterjee was Vice President of the International Botanical Congress, which was held in Paris in 1954 . There he received a special medal from the Societé Botanique de France.
In February 1955 he received the Brühl Memorial Medal . The award was made by the scientific society Asiatic Society of Bengal .
literature
- Dietlinde Hachmann: Biographical documentation about the founder of the DIG My Desired Legacy , Between Two Worlds , 'ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941404-12-0 .
- Dietlinde Hachmann: Biographical documentation about the founder of DIG My Desired Legacy , In the Land of My Dreams , 'ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941404-72-4 .
- Obituary by K. Biswas on the death of Chatterjee on September 24, 1960
Various newspapers in Calcutta and letter from Chatterjee Article text: My Desired Legacy , Volume 1, Page 137
Web links
- Biographical information on "My dream inheritance"
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Debabrata Chatterjee at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary by Dr. K. Biswas on the death of Dr. Chatterjee on September 24, 1960.
- ↑ My Desired Legacy , Volume 1, page 137.
- ↑ Newspaper article from the " Press Trust of India ".
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chatterjee, Debabrata |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chinsurah |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 1960 |
| Place of death | Calcutta |