Madhusree Mukerjee

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

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,

She received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete her first book, entitled The Land of Naked People (2003). 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.

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

Selected works