Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty

Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty at Science City, Kolkata on 8 Nov. 2009
Born(1938-04-04)4 April 1938
Sainthia, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died10 July 2020(2020-07-10) (aged 82)[1]
Chicago, Illinois, United States[2]
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta
Known forGenetically engineering a Pseudomonas bacterium
Scientific career
FieldsMicrobiology

Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (Bengali: আনন্দমোহন চক্রবর্তী Ānandamōhan Cakrabartī), PhD (4 April 1938 – 10 Jul 2020) was an Indian American microbiologist, scientist, and researcher, most notable for his work in directed evolution and his role in developing a genetically engineered organism using plasmid transfer while working at GE, the patent for which[3] led to landmark Supreme Court case, Diamond v. Chakrabarty.

  1. ^ Davey, Neil; Rader, Randall Ray; Chakravarti, Debabrata (January 2021). "Ananda Mohan 'Al' Chakrabarty 1938–2020". Nature Biotechnology. 39 (1): 18–19. doi:10.1038/s41587-020-00785-4. S2CID 229300870.
  2. ^ "Remembering Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty". The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 2 September 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  3. ^ US Patent 4,259,444