Naomi Datta

Naomi Datta, FRS (1922–2008) 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.^[1]

Dr. Datta co-authored (with Royston C. Clowes, Stanley Cohen, Roy Curtiss III, Stanley Falkow and Richard Novick) a proposal for uniform nomenclature for bacterial plasmids.^[2]

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ Richard P. Novick et al., "Uniform Nomenclature for Bacterial Plasmids: A Proposal", Bacteriol. Rev., March 1976, pp. 168-189

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Name	Datta, Naomi
Alternative names	British geneticist
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Date of birth	1922
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Date of death	2008
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