The Founding Papers · FP·13 · 1997
1997: Bringing Subhas Mukherjee back into the light
Nineteen years after Durga's birth, the scientist T. C. Anand Kumar opened Subhas Mukherjee's papers and told his story to the world.
The story
Anand Kumar's own team had produced India's first scientifically documented IVF baby in 1986. He went through Mukherjee's notes, letters and report, and met Durga's family.
His paper in Current Science called Durga India's first, and the world's second, test tube baby. It quotes the documents that would otherwise be lost, and it helped lead to the Indian Council of Medical Research recognising Mukherjee's work in 2002.
Almost everything we know about the inside of Mukherjee's work passes through this paper. The museum follows a different date for his death, 19 June 1981, and explains why on the Pioneers page.
“I have no doubt that Mukerji did produce a test tube baby.”T. C. Anand Kumar, 1997
The paper
Architect of India's First Test Tube Baby: Dr Subhas Mukerji (16 January 1931 to 19 July 1981)
T. C. Anand Kumar
Current Science 1997;72(7):526 to 531. Published 10 April 1997. Free to read.
How we know
The six-page scan was read on 6 October 2026, and quotations were checked against it.
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