Harbans Singh Jaswal

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Harbans Singh Jaswal (11 July 1923 - 3 July 1999) was a Sikh microbiologist who served first with the British Indian Medical Service (I.M.S.) at the Central Research Institute, Kasauli Cantonment, India (1940-1947), and after the independence of India, continued at the same establishment until 1982. During the early 1940s, he had worked with world renowned British Tropical Disease specialist Major General Sir John Taylor, C.I.E., D.S.O., M.D., LL.D., D.P.H., I.M.S., among other British Indian Army Medical Service and I.M.S. officers.

Harbans Singh Jaswal was born in Village Baddon, District Hoshiarpur, and belonged to a Jaswal Sikh rajput family hailing from the Doaba region of the Punjab.