Anjali Mookerjee

She received her Ph.D. in 1963, in Calcutta. She retired from the School of Environmental Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi where she was Dean. Her research had been on radiation biophysics. She was the Director of the Sivatosh Mookerjee Science Centre.

An excerpt from the publication "Road to research":
"From my childhood, I knew that mathematics was the stepping stone to enter the world of Science, and that was what together with Sanskrit, our elders learnt. And that I too would learn the same. Mine was a ‘joint family’ of the feudal zamindari system, consisting of my father and his two older brothers, my grandmother, mother, two older aunts, and cousins and my brother and two sisters. Daughters were very well taken care of, including their education. My hometown was Chandernagore – a small French township on the banks of the river Hooghly. It had a French Convent School, a Church, and various other schools and colleges, and some French nationals. I was a student of St. Joseph’s Convent – where we followed Junior and Senior Cambridge Course.