Dr. Satwant Singh Dhaliwal (Punjabi: ਸਤਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਧਾਲੀਵਾਲ, romanized: Satavata sigha dhālīvāla; 29 January 1933 – 6 February 2015)[1] was a Malaysian geneticist, academic and author.
[6] At the end of 1956, at 23 years of age, Dhaliwal was one of two students to be awarded the Shell Research Fellowship at the University of Malaya.
[8] He received his Master of Science that year and went on to pursue a Doctorate in Genetics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1959.
He took up the position of Demonstrator at the Department of Zoology at the University of Malaya in Singapore in 1955.
He was a frequent attendee and speaker at conferences all over the world,[10] and was Malaysia's representative to the Council of Pacific Science Congress.