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
- Global muckraking : 200 years of investigative journalism from around the{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. New Press(2014). ISBN 978-1595589736
- Churchill's secret war : the british empire and the ravaging of india during world war ii.{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Basic Books(2011). ISBN 978-0465024810
- The land of naked people : encounters with Stone Age islanders{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Houghton Mifflin(2003). ISBN 0618197362
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Who's afraid of Amartya Sen?. The Telegraph(27 February 2011).
- ↑ Madhusree Mukerjee: Home.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A fleeting force of physics.
- ↑ Madhusree Mukerjee: Bio and Contact. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
- ↑ "Madhusree Mukerjee interviewed by John Horgan", BhTV, 18 September 2010, from 00:00:59 Template:Webarchive
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Bio and Contact" Template:Webarchive, madhusree.com.
- ↑ Sophie Bushwick, Madhusree Mukerjee, ChatGPT Explains Why AIs like ChatGPT Should Be Regulated, Scientific American, December 28, 2022
- ↑ Churchill's Secret War, By Madhusree Mukerjee. The Independent(2 September 2010).
- ↑ Churchill's Dark Side: Six Questions for Madhusree Mukerjee. Harpers(4 November 2010).
- ↑ Did Churchill Let Them Starve?. The New York Review of Books(23 December 2010).
External links
- The Prime Minister and the Prof, Revisionist History (podcast) (interview with Mukerjee)
- Churchill's Famine?. Outlook(September 2010).
- Churchill's Secret War by Madhusree Mukerjee. The Times(8 August 2010).