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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Jyoti Bhusan Chatterjea
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1919|2|16}}
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1972|2|29|1919|2|16}}
| death_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| residence =
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Pharmacology]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[University of Calcutta]] }}
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| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Studies on [[Hemoglobin E#Hemoglobin E.2F.CE.B2-thalassaemia|Hemoglobin E/β-thalassaemia]]
| awards = {{ublist|1958 [[University of Calcutta|UoC]] Coates Medal | 1963 [[Asiatic Society]] Barclay Medal | 1964 [[Indian Council of Medical Research|ICMR]] Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize | 1965 Minto Medal | 1966 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] }}
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'''Jyoti Bhusan Chatterjea''' (1919–1972) was an Indian [[hematologist]], medical academic and the director of [[Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine]],<ref name="Great Personalities">{{Cite web |url=http://stmkolkata.org/greatpersonalities.html |title=Great Personalities |date=2017 |publisher=Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine}}</ref> He was known for his hematological and clinical studies of [[Hemoglobin E#Hemoglobin E.2F.CE.B2-thalassaemia|Hemoglobin E/β-thalassaemia]]<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=303 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize}}</ref> and was an elected fellow of the [[National Academy of Medical Sciences]],<ref name="NAMS Deceased Fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://nams-india.in/downloads/obit.pdf |title=NAMS Deceased Fellows |date=2017 |publisher=National Academy of Medical Sciences}}</ref> and the [[Indian National Science Academy]].<ref name="Deceased fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/deceaseddisp2.php?fn=c |title=Deceased fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> 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.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=12 November 2016}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}

== Biography ==
[[File:Calcuttamedicalcollege1.jpg|thumb|left|235px|Calcutta Medical College in 1910]]
J. B. Chatterjea, born on 16 February 1919 in [[Kolkata]], the capital city of the Indian state of [[West Bengal]], 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.<ref name="Biography">{{Cite web |url=http://www.bloodjournal.org/content/bloodjournal/39/6/890.full.pdf?sso-checked=true |title=Biography |date=2017 |publisher=Blood}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Past Directors">{{Cite web |url=http://stmkolkata.org/pastdirectors.html |title=Past Directors |date=2017 |publisher=Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine}}</ref> He was holding that position when he died on 29 February 1972, at the age of 53, survived by his wife and a daughter.

== Legacy ==
Chatterjea's researches were focused on the hematological aspects of tropical diseases and his studies on the human red blood cells widened the understanding of the [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/etiopathogenesis etiopathogenetic] aspects of [[hereditary disorder]]s.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=14 February 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> His work covered the roles played by iron, [[folic acid]], vitamin B12 and conjugate foliate compounds in human system and assisted him in the discovery of [[Hemoglobin E]] in [[Bengali people]]. His inquiries led to the clinical, hematological, biochemical, biophysical and the genetical studies of [[Hemoglobin E#Hemoglobin E.2F.CE.B2-thalassaemia|Hemoglobin E/β-thalassaemia]] prevalent in Bengal region.<ref name="Deceased fellow" /> He documented his researches by way of several medical papers published in peer-reviewed journals<ref name="Author profile">{{Cite web |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?access_num=CHATTERJEA+JB&link_type=AUTHORSEARCH&sso-checked=1&cmd=search&term=CHATTERJEA+JB%5Bau%5D&dispmax=50 |title=Author profile |date=2017 |publisher=PubMed}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and his work has been cited by a number of authors and researchers.<ref>{{cite book|title=Bed-side medicine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wr_n9G4M_XMC&pg=PR6|publisher=B. Jain Publishers|pages=6–|id=GGKEY:JWULKLASF4H|year = 1969}}</ref><ref name="GrossNaegeli2012">{{cite book|author1=Franz Gross|author2=S.R. Naegeli|author3=H.D. Philips|title=Iron Metabolism: An International Symposium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=93XpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA239|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-87152-8|pages=239–}}</ref>

Chatterjea chaired the Medical and Veterinary Section of the 51st [[Indian Science Congress]] held at Kolkata in 1964 and was the Asian representative on the executive committee of the [[International Society of Blood Transfusion]] the same year.<ref name="Biography" /> He served as the president of various medical organizations;<ref name="Deceased fellow" /> at Indian Society of Hematology for two terms in 1963 and 1964, at [[Indian Anthropological Society]] during 1967–68, at [[Indian Public Health Association]] and at [[Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists]] in 1968.<ref name="Past presidents">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iapm.org.in/pastoffice.aspx |title=Past presidents |date=2017 |publisher=Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists}}</ref> He also served as a counselor to international organizations such as International Society of Hematology, [[International Society of Blood Transfusion]] and the Reticuloendothelial Society.

== Awards and honors ==
Chatterjea received the Coates Medal of the University of Calcutta in 1958 and the Barclay Medal of the [[Asiatic Society]] in 1963.<ref name="Obituary">{{Cite web |url=http://docslide.us/documents/jb-chatterjea-an-obituary.html |title=Obituary |last=A, K, Basu |date=2017 |publisher=Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine}}</ref> In between, the [[Indian National Science Academy]] elected him as a fellow in 1960.<ref name="INSA Year Book 2016">{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |title=INSA Year Book 2016 |date=2017 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=14 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104001952/http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |archive-date=4 November 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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]]<ref name="NAMS Deceased Fellows" /> and he received the Minto Medal the next year.<ref name="Biography" /> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded him [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 1966.<ref name="Medical Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Medical_SCIENCES.htm |title=Medical Sciences |date=2017 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224074105/http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Medical_SCIENCES.htm |archivedate=2013-02-24 }}</ref> 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 Hematology and Medical Oncology, Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, [[Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists]], [[Indian Anthropological Society]] and [[Indian Public Health Association]].<ref name="Deceased fellow" /> J. B. Chatterjea Memorial Committee published a [[festschrift]] on him in 1975, titled ''Trends in Haematology'' which featured several articles including those of Chatterjea.<ref name="Trends in Haematology">{{Cite web |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/35156504?selectedversion=NBD9325225 |title=Trends in Haematology |last=N. N. Sen (editor) |year=1975 |publisher=J.B. Chatterjea Memorial Committee |page=506}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{Cite journal |last=Chatterjea JB |title=Haemoglobin Lepore. An aberrant haemoglobin variant |journal=J Indian Med Assoc |date=1971 |volume=56 |issue=10 |pages=319–20 |pmid=5093793}}
* {{Cite journal |vauthors=Swarup-Mitra S, Ghosh SK, Chatterjea JB|title=Stability of erythrocytic adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and its relation to the activity of pyruvate kinase (PK) in Hb. E-thalassaemia disease |journal=Indian J Med Res |date=1971 |volume=59 |issue=9 |pages=1430–4 |pmid=5161569}}
* {{Cite journal |vauthors=Swarup-Mitra S, Datta MC, Ghosh SK, Chatterjea JB|title=Observations on erythrocytic glutathione (GSH) and related enzymes during in vitro storage of blood from haemolytic anaemia patients |journal=Indian J Pathol Bacteriol |date=1972 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=27–33 |pmid=4642970}}
* {{Cite journal |vauthors=Banerjee DK, Datta MC, Sarkar P, Chatterjea JB|title=Daily requirement of riboflavin in normal Indian subjects |journal=Indian J Med Res |date=1973 |volume=61 |issue=2 |pages=199–207 |pmid=4758996}}
* {{Cite journal |vauthors=Rakshit MM, Chatterjea JB, Mitra SS|title=Observations on the intraerythrocytic distribution of foetal haemoglobin in Hb. E-thalassaemia disease |journal=Indian J Pathol Bacteriol |date=1973 |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=41–5 |pmid=4791521}}

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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.pubpdf.com/pub/4568365/In-memoriam-Dr-JB-Chatterjea |title=In Memoriam - Dr. J. B. Chatterjea |date=2017 |publisher=PubPDF |work=List of obituaries}}
* {{Cite journal |title=Jyoti Bhusan Chatterjea |last=Swarup Mitra S. |journal=Blood |pages=890–891 |date=June 1972 |pmid=4555035 |volume=39 |issue=6|doi=10.1182/blood.V39.6.890.890 |doi-access=free }}

== Further reading ==
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/0CBA23E07B663DE1EA542B2B739753CB/S0007114563000428a.pdf/vitamin-b12-content-of-some-articles-of-indian-diets-and-effect-of-cooking-on-it.pdf |title=Vitamin B12 content of some articles of Indian diets and effect of cooking on it |last= D. K. Banerjee and J. B. Chatterjea |date=2017 |publisher=Cambridge University |work=Article - full text}}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Mario Stefanini |author2=Enrique Perez Santiago |author3=Jyoti Bhusan Chatterjea |author4=William Dameshek |title=Corticotropin (Acth) and Cortisone in Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura |journal=Journal of the American Medical Association |volume=149 |issue=7 |date=14 June 1952 |publisher=JAMA |pages=647–653 |doi=10.1001/jama.1952.02930240025009|pmid=14927415 }}

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[[Category:Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy]]
[[Category:Fellows of The National Academy of Sciences, India]]
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