Sarashi Ranjan Mukherjee: Difference between revisions

'''Sarashi Ranjan Mukherjee''' (1919–1991) was an Indian surgeon and a neurobiologist.<ref name="Early Life and Family">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/020/01/0006-0022 |title=Early Life and Family |date=2017 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> Born on 24 November 1919 in [[Kolkata]], in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]] to Narayan Mukherjee and Kamala Devi, he was known for his studies on a number of diseases such as hypertension, hypothermia and epilepsy.<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}}</ref> He was the younger brother of [[Asima Chatterjee]], a renowned organic chemist and was her collaborator in her researches on the pharmacological activity of marsilin, an [[anticonvulsant]] drug.<ref name="Asima Chatterjee">{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/BM/BM32_0709.pdf |title=Asima Chatterjee |date=2017 |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 1968.<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> He died on 24 January 1991, at the age of 71.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=281 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize}}</ref>

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