Madhusree Mukerjee | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 63–64)[1] Calcutta,West Bengal, India |
| Education | |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, editor, physicist |
| Notable work | Churchill's Secret War (2010) |
| Website | madhusree.com |
Madhusree Mukerjee (born 1961)[1] is anIndian-American physicist, writer, editor, and journalist. She is the author ofThe Land of Naked People: Encounters with Stone Age Islanders (2003) andChurchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II (2010). She is a contributor to thePeople's Archive of Rural India and a senior editor withScientific American.[2]
Mukerjee was born inWest Bengal, India. She is a graduate ofJadavpur University with a degree in physics. After obtaining aPh.D. in physics from theUniversity of Chicago—supervised byYoichiro Nambu[3]—she began post-doctoral studies at theCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech).[4]
After completing her post-doctoral studies at Caltech, Mukerjee took upscience journalism and worked forPhysics Today for one year and since 2003, she has worked forScientific American,[5][6][3] where she is the senior editor for science and society.[7]
She received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete her first book, entitledThe Land of Naked People (2003).[6][8][9] In her second book, entitledChurchill's Secret War (2010), Mukerjee documents the role played by the policies, as well as the racial and political worldview, of the war-timePrime MinisterWinston Churchill and his trusted friend and advisor,Frederick Lindemann, in the death and devastation caused by theBengal famine of 1943 and thepartition of India.[10]
During 2011, Mukerjee was living in Germany with her husband, who teaches physics atFrankfurt University, and their son.[1]
