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| name = Chintaman Govind Pandit<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1895|07|25}}<br />
| birth_place = India<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1991|09|07|1895|07|25}}<br />
| death_place = India<br />
| occupation = [[Virologist]]<br />
| known for = Study of [[pathogens]]<br />
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]]<br>[[Order of the British Empire]]<br>[[Padma Shri]]<br />
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'''Chintaman Govind Pandit''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|commas=on|OBE}} (25 July 1895 – 7 September 1991) was an Indian [[virologist]], writer and the founder director of the [[Indian Council of Medical Research]].<ref name="Indian Council of Medical Research: then and now">{{cite journal | url=http://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/index.php/ijme/article/view/47/918 | title=Indian Council of Medical Research: then and now | author=Sunil K Pandya | journal=[[Indian Journal of Medical Ethics]] | year=2013 | volume=10 | issue=3 | issn=0975-5691}}</ref> He secured his doctoral degree (PhD) from the [[University of London]] in 1922, worked as the director of [[King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research]], Chennai, before becoming the founder director of the [[Indian Council of Medical Research]] when the institution was established in 1948.<ref name="Deceased Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://www.insaindia.org.in/deceaseddetail.php?id=N390542 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813053558/http://www.insaindia.org.in/deceaseddetail.php?id=N390542 | url-status=usurped | archive-date=13 August 2016 | title=Deceased Fellow | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2016 | access-date=15 March 2016}}</ref> After his superannuation in 1964, he was made the emeritus scientist of the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] (CSIR).<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /><br />
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Pandit, besides writing several medical articles,<ref name="Diseases of Amphibians and Reptiles">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w1PxBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA511 | title=Diseases of Amphibians and Reptiles | publisher=Springer Science & Business Media | author=Gerald Hoff | year=2012 | pages=511 of 784 | isbn=9781461593911}}</ref><ref name="The Adhesion Phenomenon in Filariasis">{{cite journal | title=The Adhesion Phenomenon in Filariasis |author1=C G Pandit |author2=S R Pandit |author3=P V Seetharama Iyer | journal=Indian Journal of Medical Research | year=1991 | volume=93 | pages=946–953 |isbn=9781461593911 | oclc=537961273}}</ref> authored two books, ''Indian Research Fund Association and Indian Council of Medical Research, 1911-1961; fifty years of progress''<ref name="Indian Research Fund Association and Indian Council of Medical Research, 1911-1961; fifty years of progress">{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0007JITFM | title=Indian Research Fund Association and Indian Council of Medical Research, 1911-1961; fifty years of progress | publisher=Indian Council of Medical Research. | author=Chintaman Govind Pandit | year=1961 | pages=94 | asin=B0007JITFM}}</ref> and ''Nutrition in India''.<ref name="Nutrition in India">{{cite book | title=Nutrition in India | publisher=Indian Council of Medical Research | author=Pandit, Chintaman G. | author2=Rao, K. Someswara | year=1960 | asin=B007Q8AKZY}}</ref> He served as the president of the [[Indian Science Congress]] of 1991 and was an elected Fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] (1939) and a founder Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (India).<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /><br />
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In the [[1943 Birthday Honours]] list, Pandit was appointed an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (OBE).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36033 |supp=y|page=2435|date=28 May 1943}}</ref> He received the fourth-highest Indian civilian honour, the [[Padma Shri]], in 1956.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2016 |access-date=3 January 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1964, for his contributions to science.<ref name="Investiture Ceremony">{{cite web | url=http://www.pib.nic.in/archive/docs/DVD_44/ACC%20NO%20835-BR/HOM-1964-04-28-6157.pdf | title=Investiture Ceremony | publisher=Government of India | date=1964 | access-date=15 March 2016}}</ref> After his death on 7 September 1991, the Indian Council of Medical Research instituted a distinguished scientist chair, ''Dr. C. G. Pandit National Chair'', in his honour.<ref name="Dr. C. G. Pandit National Chair">{{cite web | url=http://icmr.nic.in/icmrnews/ICMR%20Chair-adv.pdf | title=Dr. C. G. Pandit National Chair | publisher=Indian Council of Medical Research | date=2016 | access-date=15 March 2016 | archive-date=16 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316140158/http://icmr.nic.in/icmrnews/ICMR%20Chair-adv.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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* {{cite journal | title=A homage to Dr C. G. Pandit | author=Sriramachari S. | journal=Indian J Med Res | date=November 1991 | volume=93 | issue=IV | pages=iv–viii | pmid=1797637}}<br />
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