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{{short description|Indian botanist}}

{{Infobox scientist
| name = Debabarta Chatterjee
| image = Dr. Debabrata Chatterjee.jpg
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| caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|4|2|df=y}}| birth_place = [[Hugli-Chuchura]], India| death_date ={{death date and age|1960|9|24|1911|4|2|df=y}} | death_place =[[Shibpur]] | residence = | citizenship = India| nationality = India| fields = [[Botany]] | workplaces = [[Mandalay University]] [[Cotton University]] [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]] [[Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden|Indian Botanic Garden]]| alma_mater = [[Presidency University, Kolkata]] [[University of Edinburgh]]| doctoral_advisor = [[William Wright Smith]]| academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = [[endemism|endemic]] plants of India | author_abbrev_bot = Chatterjee | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Special Centenary Medal of the [[Société botanique de France]] Brühl Memorial Medal of [[The Asiatic Society]], 1950| signature = | signature_alt = | footnotes = | spouse = }}

'''Debabarta Chatterjee''' (born 1911) was a [[botanist]] from [[India]], whose primary scholarly focus was the endemic flora of India.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&id=64486 |title=Index of Botanists: Chatterjee, Debabarta|author= |date=n.d. |website=Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries |access-date=June 12, 2020}}</ref>

== Life ==
Chatterjee was born in [[Hugli-Chuchura]], India on 2 April 1911. He received his Master of Science (M.Sc.) from [[Presidency University, Kolkata]] (then called Presidency College) in 1937. He conducted his doctoral work at the [[University of Edinburgh]] while being mentored by Sir [[William Wright Smith]] and received his Ph.D. in 1939. His first professional posting was as a lecturer at [[Mandalay University]] (then called Mandalay College) in Burma. Following the invasion of Burma by Japan in 1942 he moved to become a lecturer at [[Cotton University]] (then called Cotton College, Guwahati) in [[Assam]], India. In 1946 he became the botanist for India at the [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]]. From 1949 to 1955 he served as systematic botanist at the [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]] in [[Dehli]]. In 1954 he served as the Vice President of the [[International Botanical Congress]] in Paris. In 1955 he became the superintendent of the [[Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden]] in [[Shibpur]]. On 24 September 1960 he was shot and killed by another member of the Botanic Garden's staff.<ref name=Chatterjee1958>{{cite book |last=Chatterjee |first=D |date=1958 |chapter=Tropical Vegetation of Eastern India |title= Study of Tropical Vegetation, Proceedings of the Kandy Symposium |url= https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000019488 |location= Paris |publisher= United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |pages=60–67}}</ref><ref name="Bor1960">{{cite journal |last1=Bor |first1=N. L. |title=Dr. D. Chatterjee |journal=Nature |volume=188 |issue=4748 |year=1960 |pages=364–364 |issn=0028-0836 |doi=10.1038/188364a0 }}</ref>

== Work ==
His Ph.D. thesis was entitled "Endemic Flora of India and Burma" was published by the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.<ref name=chatterjee1940>{{cite journal |last=Chatterjee |first=D. |date=1940 |title=Studies on the endemic flora of India and Burma |journal=J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal. Sci. |volume=5 |pages=19–67 }}</ref> During his career he published on topics including the systematics of endemic plant species in India and Burma, domestication of rice and cultivation of wheat.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.mein-wunscherbe.de/100-jahre-deboo |title= 100 years of Deboo |author= Dietlinde Hachmann |date=n.d. |website=Mein Wunscherbe |access-date= June 12, 2020}}</ref>

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== Awards ==
In recognition of his botanical scholarship he was awarded the Special Centenary Medal of the [[Société botanique de France]] and in 1950 the Brühl Memorial Medal of [[The Asiatic Society]] (then called the Asiatic Society of Bengal).<ref name=Chatterjee1958/>

== Legacy ==
He is the authority for at least 33 [[taxa]] including: {{plantlist|Chatterjee}}

== References ==
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[[Category:Indian botanists]]
[[Category:Presidency University, Kolkata alumni]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh]]
[[Category:Botanists active in Kew Gardens]]
[[Category:1911 births]]
[[Category:1960 deaths]]

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