Madhusree Mukerjee Explained

Madhusree Mukerjee
Birth Place:Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Occupation:Writer, editor, physicist
Notable Works:Churchill's Secret War (2010)
Website:madhusree.com

Madhusree Mukerjee (born 1961) is an Indian-American physicist, writer, editor, and journalist. She is the author of The Land of Naked People: Encounters with Stone Age Islanders (2003) and Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II (2010). She is a contributor to the People's Archive of Rural India and a senior editor with Scientific American.[1]

Early life and education

Mukerjee was born in West Bengal, India. She is a graduate of Jadavpur University with a degree in physics. After obtaining a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago—supervised by Yoichiro Nambu[2] —she began post-doctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).[3]

Career

After completing her post-doctoral studies at Caltech, Mukerjee took up science journalism and worked for Physics Today for one year and since 2003, she has worked for Scientific American,[4] [5] [2] where she is the senior editor for science and society.[6]

She received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete her first book, entitled The Land of Naked People (2003).[5] [7] [8] In her second book, entitled Churchill's Secret War (2010), Mukerjee documents the role played by the policies, as well as the racial and political worldview, of the war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his trusted friend and advisor, Frederick Lindemann, in the death and devastation caused by the Bengal famine of 1943 and the partition of India.[9]

Personal life

During 2011, Mukerjee was living in Germany with her husband, who teaches physics at Frankfurt University, and their son.[10]

Selected works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Madhusree Mukerjee: Home.
  2. News: A fleeting force of physics. 2 February 2018. Division of the Physical Sciences, The University of Chicago. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20180203064618/https://physical-sciences.uchicago.edu/page/fleeting-force-physics. 3 February 2018.
  3. Web site: Madhusree Mukerjee: Bio and Contact. 2018-02-02. 2017-09-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20170910194056/http://madhusree.com/contact.html. dead.
  4. "Madhusree Mukerjee interviewed by John Horgan", BhTV, 18 September 2010, from 00:00:59
  5. http://madhusree.com/contact.html "Bio and Contact"
  6. Sophie Bushwick, Madhusree Mukerjee, ChatGPT Explains Why AIs like ChatGPT Should Be Regulated, Scientific American, December 28, 2022
  7. News: Chandak. Sengoopta. Churchill's Secret War, By Madhusree Mukerjee. The Independent. 2 September 2010. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20160817000732/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/churchills-secret-war-by-madhusree-mukerjee-2068698.html. 17 August 2016.
  8. News: Scott. Horton. Churchill's Dark Side: Six Questions for Madhusree Mukerjee. Harpers. 4 November 2010. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20160730040924/http://harpers.org/blog/2010/11/churchills-dark-side-six-questions-for-madhusree-mukerjee/. 30 July 2016.
  9. News: Lelyveld. Joseph. Did Churchill Let Them Starve?. The New York Review of Books. 23 December 2010. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20160228045636/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/12/23/did-churchill-let-them-starve/. 28 February 2016.
  10. News: Who's afraid of Amartya Sen?. https://web.archive.org/web/20120529181646/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110227/jsp/7days/story_13642477.jsp. dead. May 29, 2012. The Telegraph. 27 February 2011. Kolkata.

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