Naomi Datta

Professor
Naomi Datta
FRS
Datta in May 1998
Born17 September 1922
London, England
Died30 November 2008
Medical career
ResearchBacteriology

Naomi Datta, FRS[1] (née Goddard; 17 September 1922 – 30 November 2008)[2] was a distinguished British geneticist. Working at Hammersmith Hospital in the 1950s and early 1960s, she identified horizontal gene transfer as a source of multi-antibiotic resistance in bacteria.[3]

  1. ^ Barth, Peter Thomas (2023). "Naomi Datta. 17 September 1922 – 30 November 2008". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 74: 123–141. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2022.0032. S2CID 254878259.
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