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| honorific_prefix = [[Rai Bahadur]] [[Sir]]<br />
| name = Upendranath Brahmachari<br/>{{small|উপেন্দ্রনাথ ব্রহ্মচারী}}<br />
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|FRSM|FRS}}<br />
| image = Scientist Sir Upendra Nath Brahmachari.png<br />
| caption = Sir Upendranath Brahmachari<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1873|12|19}}<br />
| birth_place = Village- Sardanga, Purbasthali, District- Purba Bardhaman (Burdwan) [[west bengal]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1946|02|06|1873|12|19}}<br />
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| children = Phanindra Nath Brahmachari <br /> Nirmal Kumar Brahmachari<br />
| spouse = Nani Bala Devi<br />
| fields = [[Medicine]], [[Physician]]<br />
| workplaces = {{Plainlist|<br />
* [[University of Calcutta]]<br />
* Campbell Medical School {{small|(now [[Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital]])}}<br />
* Carmichael Medical College {{small|(now [[R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital]])}}<br />
* [[Dhaka Medical College and Hospital]]<br />
* [[Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata|Calcutta Medical College]]<br />
* [[Calcutta National Medical College|National Medical Institute]]<br />
* [[Indian Council of Medical Research]]<br />
* University College of Science, Calcutta<br />
* [[Indian Red Cross Society]]<br />
* [[Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine]]<br />
* [[Zoological Garden, Alipore|Zoological Garden, Kolkata]]<br />
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| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|<br />
* Eastern Railways Boys' High School, Jamalpur<br />
* [[Hooghly Mohsin College]]<br />
* [[Presidency University, Kolkata]]<br />
* [[University of Calcutta]]<br />
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| doctoral_advisor = Sir [[Gerald Bomford]]<br />
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| awards = {{Plainlist|<br />
* [[Emperor of India|Kaisar-i-Hind]] Gold Medal {{small|(1924)}}<br />
* [[Rai Bahadur]] award {{small|(1924)}}<br />
* [[Knight Bachelor|Knighthood]] {{small|(1934)}}<br />
* [[Royal Society of Medicine|Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London]]<br />
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[[Rai Bahadur]] '''Sir Upendranath Brahmachari''' {{small|{{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|FRSM|FRS}}}} ({{lang-bn|উপেন্দ্রনাথ ব্রহ্মচারী}}) (19 December 1873 – 6 February 1946) was an Indian scientist and a leading medical practitioner of his time.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Singh |first1=Rajinder |last2=Roy |first2=Syamal |title=U N Brahmachari: Scientific Achievements and Nomination for the Nobel Prize and the Fellowship of the Royal Society of London |journal=Indian Journal of History of Science |date=1 March 2019 |volume=54 |issue=1 |doi=10.16943/ijhs/2019/v54i1/49596|doi-access=free }}</ref> He synthesised [[Urea]]-Stibamine (carbostibamide) in 1922 and determined that it was an effective treatment for [[Kala-azar]] (Visceral leishmaniasis).<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Upendranath Brahmachari was born on 19 December 1873 in Sardanga village near Purbasthali, District Burdwan of West Bengal, India. His father Nilmony Brahmachari was a physician in East Indian Railways. His mother's name was Saurabh Sundari Devi. He completed his early education from Eastern Railways Boys' High School, Jamalpur. In 1893, he passed BA degree from [[Hooghly Mohsin College]] with honours in Mathematics and Chemistry. Thereafter he went to study Medicine with Higher Chemistry. He passed his master's degree in 1894 from the [[Presidency College, Kolkata]]. In M.B. Examination of 1900 of the [[University of Calcutta]], he stood first in Medicine and in Surgery for which he received Goodeve and Macleod awards. He obtained his MD degree in 1902, and was awarded a PhD degree in 1904, for his research paper on "Studies in Haemolysis" both from the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref name="UB">{{cite web|url=http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/UNBrahmachari.htm|title=Vigyan Prasar website – Upendra Nath Brahamachari}}</ref> In 1898, he married Nani Bala Devi.<br />
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== Life and career ==<br />
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In 1922, Brahmachari also discovered a new, deadly form of [[leishmaniasis]]. He called it dermal leishmanoid, marked by the appearance of sudden eruptions on the face of the patients without fever or other complaints. He observed it as a disease in partially cured cases of kala-azar, along with those who had no history of the disease at all.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Brahmachari|first=U. N.|date=April 1922|title=A New Form of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis—Dermal Leishmanoid|journal=The Indian Medical Gazette|volume=57|issue=4|pages=125–127|issn=0019-5863|pmc=5186533|pmid=29008368}}</ref> It has since been termed as [[post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis]] (PKDL).<br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
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[[File:Upendranath Brahmachari Road - Kolkata 2011-10-16 160462.JPG|thumb|250px|Dr. U. N. Brahmachari street renamed from Loudon street, beside Minto park, Kolkata.]]<br />
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He was awarded the title of [[Rai Bahadur]] and awarded the [[Kaisar-i-Hind]] Gold Medal, 1st Class by the Governor General Lord Lytton (1924),<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/32941/supplements/4420 London Gazette, 3 June 1924]</ref> In 1934, he was conferred a [[Knight Bachelor|knighthood]] by the British Government (1934)<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34056/pages/3557 London Gazette, 1 June 1934]</ref><br />
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Brahmachari was a nominee for the Nobel Prize twice in 1929<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/|title=Nomination Archive|last=1929|first=Upendranath Brahmachari|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-06}}</ref> and 1942<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/|title=Nomination Archive|last=1942|first=Upendranath Brahmachari|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-06}}</ref> in the category of physiology and medicine. He was president of the 23rd session of the [[Indian Science Congress Association#Indian Science Congress|Indian Science Congress]] in Indore (1936). He was the President of the Indian Chemical Society, Calcutta (1936). He was honoured with the fellowships of the Royal Society of Medicine, London and the Indian National Science Academy as well as the President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for two years (1928–29).<ref name="Deceased Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://www.insaindia.org.in/deceaseddetail.php?id=F000126 | title=Deceased Fellow | publisher=INSA | date=2016 | access-date=May 13, 2016}}</ref> He was also the Vice-chairman of the board of Trustees of the Indian Museum.<br />
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== Important works ==<br />
# Studies in Haemolysis, Calcutta University, 1909. <br />
# Kala-Azar : Its treatment, Butterworth & Co. Ltd. Calcutta 1917. <br />
# Kala-Azar in Doctor Carl Mense’s Handbuch der Tropenkranahaiten, vol. IV, 1926. <br />
# Treatise on Kala-Azar, John Bale, Son’s & Danielsson Ltd., London, 1928. <br />
# Campaign against Kala-Azar in India, Jubilee Publication on the 80th birthday of Dr. Prof. Bernhard Nocht, Hamburg, clique aqui 1937. <br />
# Progress of Medical Research work in India during the last 25 years, an progress of Science in India, during the past 25 years, Indian Science Congress Association 1938. <br />
# Gleanings from my Researchers Vol. I, Calcutta University 1940 <br />
# Gleanings from my Researchers Vol. II Calcutta University 1941 <br />
# Infantile Biliary Cirrhosis in India in British Encyclopedia of Medical practice. Edited by Sir Humphrey Rolleston<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
# ''Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy'' Vol. 4., Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, 1976.<br />
# ''Dictionary of Medical Biography'' Vol. 1 A-B, Edited by W. F. Bynum and Helen Bynum, Greenwood Press, 2006<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050406234706/http://vigyanprasar.com/dream/july2004/english.pdf Profile in ''Dream 2047'']<br />
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