Ranajit Chakraborty (1946-2018)

Ranajit Chakraborty, an internationally renowned population and human geneticist, passed away on 23 September 2018 in Texas, USA. He was 72. He was an illustrious alumnus of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). He did his Bachelor of Statistics (Hons), Master of Statistics (with specialization in advanced probability and mathematical genetics) and Ph D on statistical genetics (under C. R. Rao) from ISI. Then he served on the faculty of the Center for Demographic and Population Genetics, The University of Texas, Houston, USA for 28 years. He became the Allen King Professor of Population Genetics and Biological Sciences in the School of Public Health, The University of Texas. In 2001, he was recruited to establish the Center of Genome Information at the University of Cincinnati, USA, where he was the first recipient of the Robert A. Kehoe Professorship. He spent his final years in the Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, USA.