page_title: Naomi Datta
hierarchical_section_title: Naomi Datta
caption_attribution_description: Taken at the Witness Seminar “Post penicillin antibiotics” held by the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group.
context_page_description: Naomi Datta, FRS 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.
context_section_description: Naomi Datta, FRS (17 September 1922 – 30 November 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.
caption: Datta in May 1998
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