Madhusree Mukerjee

Madhusree Mukerjee
Born1961 (age 63–64)[1]
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Education
Occupation(s)Writer, editor, physicist
Notable workChurchill's Secret War (2010)
Websitemadhusree.com

Madhusree Mukerjee (born 1961)[1] 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.[2]

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[3]—she began post-doctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).[4]

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,[5][6][3] where she is the senior editor for science and society.[7]

She received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete her first book, entitled The Land of Naked People (2003).[6][8][9] 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.[10]

Personal life

During 2011, Mukerjee was living in Germany with her husband, who teaches physics at Frankfurt University, and their son.[1]

Selected works

  • Mukerjee, Madhusree (2014). "A Prime Example of British Civilization (1943) from Biplabi". In Schiffrin, Anya (ed.). Global muckraking : 200 years of investigative journalism from around the. [S.l.]: New Press. ISBN 978-1595589736.
  • Mukerjee, Madhusree (2011). Churchill's secret war : the british empire and the ravaging of india during world war ii. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465024810.
  • Mukerjee, Madhusree (2003). The land of naked people : encounters with Stone Age islanders. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0618197362.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Who's afraid of Amartya Sen?". The Telegraph. Kolkata. 27 February 2011. Archived from the original on May 29, 2012.
  2. ^ "Madhusree Mukerjee: Home".
  3. ^ a b "A fleeting force of physics". Division of the Physical Sciences, The University of Chicago. Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Madhusree Mukerjee: Bio and Contact". Archived from the original on 2017-09-10. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
  5. ^ "Madhusree Mukerjee interviewed by John Horgan", BhTV, 18 September 2010, from 00:00:59 Archived 2018-04-08 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ a b "Bio and Contact" Archived 2017-09-10 at the Wayback Machine, madhusree.com.
  7. ^ Sophie Bushwick, Madhusree Mukerjee, ChatGPT Explains Why AIs like ChatGPT Should Be Regulated, Scientific American, December 28, 2022
  8. ^ Sengoopta, Chandak (2 September 2010). "Churchill's Secret War, By Madhusree Mukerjee". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016.
  9. ^ Horton, Scott (4 November 2010). "Churchill's Dark Side: Six Questions for Madhusree Mukerjee". Harpers. Archived from the original on 30 July 2016.
  10. ^ Lelyveld, Joseph (23 December 2010). "Did Churchill Let Them Starve?". The New York Review of Books. Archived from the original on 28 February 2016.