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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1961}}<ref name=Telegraph/><br />
| birth_place =[[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], India<br />
| education = {{ubl|[[Jadavpur University]]|[[University of Chicago]]}}<br />
| occupation = Writer, editor, physicist <br />
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| notable_works = ''[[Churchill's Secret War]]'' (2010)<br />
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'''Madhusree Mukerjee''' (born 1961)<ref name=Telegraph/> is an [[Indian Americans|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|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]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Madhusree Mukerjee: Home|url= http://madhusree.com}}</ref><br />
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== Early life and education ==<br />
Mukerjee was born in [[West Bengal]], India. She is a graduate of [[Jadavpur University]] with a degree in physics. After obtaining a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in physics from the [[University of Chicago]]—supervised by [[Yoichiro Nambu]]<ref name="A fleeting force of physics">{{cite news|title=A fleeting force of physics|url=https://physical-sciences.uchicago.edu/page/fleeting-force-physics|accessdate=2 February 2018|publisher=Division of the Physical Sciences, The University of Chicago|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203064618/https://physical-sciences.uchicago.edu/page/fleeting-force-physics|archivedate=3 February 2018}}</ref>—she began post-doctoral studies at the [[California Institute of Technology]] (Caltech).<ref name="madhusree.com">{{cite web|title=Madhusree Mukerjee: Bio and Contact|url=http://madhusree.com/contact.html|access-date=2018-02-02|archive-date=2017-09-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910194056/http://madhusree.com/contact.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
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'',<ref>"Madhusree Mukerjee interviewed by John Horgan", BhTV, 18 September 2010, from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmk0hfDyZsw&t=0m59s 00:00:59] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408223505/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmk0hfDyZsw&t=0m59s |date=2018-04-08 }}</ref><ref name=bio>[http://madhusree.com/contact.html "Bio and Contact"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910194056/http://madhusree.com/contact.html |date=2017-09-10 }}, madhusree.com.</ref><ref name="A fleeting force of physics"/> where she is the senior editor for science and society.<ref>Sophie Bushwick, Madhusree Mukerjee, ''[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-explains-why-ais-like-chatgpt-should-be-regulated1/ ChatGPT Explains Why AIs like ChatGPT Should Be Regulated]'', ''[[Scientific American]]'', December 28, 2022</ref> <br />
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She received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete her first book, entitled ''The Land of Naked People'' (2003).<ref name=bio/><ref name="independent">{{cite news|first=Chandak|last=Sengoopta|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/churchills-secret-war-by-madhusree-mukerjee-2068698.html|work=The Independent|title=Churchill's Secret War, By Madhusree Mukerjee|date=2 September 2010|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817000732/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/churchills-secret-war-by-madhusree-mukerjee-2068698.html|archivedate=17 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="harpers">{{cite news|first=Scott|last=Horton|url=http://harpers.org/blog/2010/11/churchills-dark-side-six-questions-for-madhusree-mukerjee/|work=Harpers|title=Churchill's Dark Side: Six Questions for Madhusree Mukerjee|date=4 November 2010|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730040924/http://harpers.org/blog/2010/11/churchills-dark-side-six-questions-for-madhusree-mukerjee/|archivedate=30 July 2016}}</ref> 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 of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Winston Churchill]] and his trusted friend and advisor, [[Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell|Frederick Lindemann]], in the death and devastation caused by the [[Bengal famine of 1943]] and the [[partition of India]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lelyveld|first1=Joseph|title=Did Churchill Let Them Starve?|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/12/23/did-churchill-let-them-starve/|work=The New York Review of Books|date=23 December 2010|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160228045636/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/12/23/did-churchill-let-them-starve/|archivedate=28 February 2016}}</ref><br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
During 2011, Mukerjee was living in Germany with her husband, who teaches physics at [[Frankfurt University]], and their son.<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|title=Who's afraid of Amartya Sen?|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1110227/jsp/7days/story_13642477.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529181646/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110227/jsp/7days/story_13642477.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 29, 2012|work=The Telegraph|date=27 February 2011|location=Kolkata}}</ref><br />
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== Selected works ==<br />
*{{cite book|last1=Mukerjee|first1=Madhusree|editor1-last=Schiffrin|editor1-first=Anya|title=Global muckraking : 200 years of investigative journalism from around the|date=2014|publisher=New Press|location=[S.l.]|isbn=978-1595589736|chapter=A Prime Example of British Civilization (1943) from ''Biplabi''}}<br />
*{{cite book|last1=Mukerjee|first1=Madhusree|title=Churchill's secret war : the british empire and the ravaging of india during world war ii.|date=2011|publisher=Basic Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0465024810}}<br />
*{{cite book|last1=Mukerjee|first1=Madhusree|title=The land of naked people : encounters with Stone Age islanders|url=https://archive.org/details/landofnakedpeopl0000muke|url-access=registration|date=2003|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|location=Boston|isbn=0618197362}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/15-the-prime-minister-and-the-prof The Prime Minister and the Prof], [[Revisionist History (podcast)]] (interview with Mukerjee)<br />
* {{cite news|last1=Reddy|first1=Sheela|title=Churchill's Famine?|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/churchills-famine/266849|work=Outlook|date=September 2010}}<br />
* {{cite news|last1=Hastings|first1=Max|author-link=Max Hastings|title=Churchill's Secret War by Madhusree Mukerjee|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/asia-travel/india/churchills-secret-war-by-madhusree-mukerjee-q9ff5hws39m|work=[[The Times]]|date=8 August 2010}}<br />
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