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Swatantrata Ka
Amrut Mahotsav
Vigyan
Vidushi
Indian Women Scientists
Resource Book on Profiles of Jyotirmayee Dash, an organic chemist who It is critical to provide our millennial girls
Indian Women Scientists
works on developing anti-cancer therapeutics a glimpse of the professional lives of women
were awarded the SSB prize in 2019 and 2020 scientists born out of the Indian soil. Such
respectively. The book aims to showcase the stories will resonate more closely with the
professional journeys of these women with challenges, fear and doubts that spur out of
W
hile the world is witnessing ‘winds of the role of women researchers. Women have compelling narrative of how the workspaces the socio-cultural conditioning in young girls
change’ for women scientists, India is mostly been perceived as followers, colleagues for women got constructed and how they had interested in pursuing science. The narrative
also not lagging behind. In 2015, the and not as pathfinders and leaders. This evolved over the last 75 years. will paint varied shades in the personalities
United Nations resolved to celebrate 11 February notion is not true but an outcome of socio- of contemporary women researchers —
every year as ‘International Day for Women cultural conditioning with its roots deeply Our young girls need to know about pre- the virtues they believe in, the traits they
and Girls in Science’, which further invigorated embedded in ever pervasive patriarchy. As a independence status of women education to be have inculcated, their low points, risks are
the global mission for justice and equality. In part of the SwAM activities, we perceive this able to connect the past, appreciate our present undertaken and the ingenious solutions and
2020, India celebrated National Science Day resource book as an instrument to project the and create the best of the future. An exciting strategies they have adopted to overcome
with ‘Women in Science’ as the focal theme. accurate picture at the horizon and present a example is Bethune college in Kolkata that came barriers for furthering their interest in
An equally enthralling announcement came compilation of biographies showcasing stellar up in the late 19th century and has produced the science. We have taken a special note of
when 11 chairs were established in the names accomplishments of Indian women STEMM youngest Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize winner maintaining the diversity of role models
of women scientists from India at institutions researchers from 1947-2021. These women have (2019)— the mathematician Neena Gupta who by selecting women scientists from various
across the country. Such reverence is most demonstrated Jan-bhagidaari in true sense solved the ‘Zariski Cancellation Problem’. The disciplines e.g., Space sciences (Tessy Thomas
deserved and was long due. for building and strengthening the scientific book will weave together several intertwining and Ritu Karidhal Srivastava), Mathematics
enterprise’ of the 21st century India. threads such as modernization of education, (Sujatha Ramdorai), Computer Science
India is celebrating ‘Swatantrata (Azadi) Ka revival of women education and the rise of (Sanghamitra Bandopadhyaya), Neuroscience
Amrut Mahotsav (SwAM) as a Jan-Utsav in the If one tries to map successful women researchers colonial science during the late 19th century. (Vatsala Thirumalai), Geologist (Sudipta
spirit of Jan-Bhagidari dedicated to its citizens to pre and early post-independence era, the For example – the mention of Anandibai Joshi, Sengupta), and Science Administration
who have contributed to India becoming outcome would be a patchy, sparingly populated the first female to receive training in western (Manju Sharma and Renu Swarup). Such
an empowered nation. Jan-bhagidaari timeline. However, the patches bask in their own medicine abroad is incomplete without the diversity will inspire the young girls to break
means equal contribution of the people— glory; each one representing a woman who dared acknowledging the herculean efforts of Jyotiba boundaries of disciplines which is a significant
women, men and others in nation to dream of not only getting educated but also Phule, who stirred a movement for women’s feature and problem of gendered science.
building. STEMM (Science, Technology, showcasing professionalism and leadership in education in mid 19th century. Similarly, though
Engineering, Mathematics and science. For e.g. . E.K Janaki Ammal reorganised the Calcutta medical college was established The book is aimed at sending a message to the
Medicine) are the prime engines the Botanical Survey of India, Rajeshwari in 1835, it took almost 50 years for Kadambini policy makers, S&T leaders, and other decision
that have steered national Chatterjee became the first women faculty at Ganguly to make history by being the first making bodies to keep up the recent traction
growth and created the IISc and Asima Chatterji, the first women to be female graduate in medicine in 1883. The that they have built up to promote ‘Women in
self-reliant India of awarded D.Sc. degree of any Indian University. narrative will allow our readers to take a leap to Science’. We hope that the tell-tale ignites the
2021. The drivers of the landscape of medical research in 21st century ‘Will and Resolve’ in the society to appreciate the
the STEMM engine In contrast, the timeline for the first India, to tell the pride instilling tales of clinician contribution of women as who they are and not in
are both women and two decades of this millennium appears scientists such as Soumya Swaminathan who the light of the commonly used phrase ‘A woman
men. However, we more populated with many young women stepped up to the position of Deputy Director is as worthy as men’. This ‘attitude shift’ sounds
lag behind or rather scientists leading institutions and winning General at World Health Organisation in 2017 a bit utopian, but even a modest achievement
remain oblivious the major science awards in India. Aditi Sen and Gagandeep Kang who became the first in this direction will be our true celebration of
to applauding De, a quantum computation physicist and women to be elected to the Royal Society in 2019. SwAM for women in science.
Milestones of Women in Indian Science
THE PIONEERS Anandibai
Gopalrao Joshi
(1865 – 1887)
First Indian female to
1848
Savitribai Jyotiba Phule
1881
Lady Abala Bose
1883
Chandramukhi Basu & Kadambini Ganguly
1886
Anandibai Gopalrao Ramabai Ranade
Those who treaded the
study and graduate First female teacher of First Indian woman to Kadambini Ganguly India’s first female Joshi Set up first girls’ high
India who founded the study medicine at Madras Calcutta University doctor & practitioner First first Indian school in Pune
with a degree western
first girls’ school University produces the first two of western medicine female doctor of
medicine from the women graduates in India in the whole of South western medicine
United States, 1886.
unconventional path
Asia
She is believed to be
the first woman to set
foot on American soil
from India.
1926 1917 1910 1894 1888
Begum Rokeya Jagadish Chandra Bose & Sarala Devi Chaudhurani Rukhmabai Raut Rupa Bai Furdoonji Chandramukhi Basu
Sultana Lady Abala Bose Established first women’s The second woman to World’s first female First female head of
Pioneer in Basu Bigyan Mandir (Bose
Kadambini Ganguly Mary Poonen Bibha Chowdhary Women’s Institute) established
organization Bharat both receive a medical anesthetist an undergraduate
(1861-1923) Lukose (1913-1991) Educational
Stree Mahamandal degree and practice academic establishment
The first Indian women (1886-1976) First woman high for promoting female medicine in the South Asia
Rights in India education
to get admission to The first energy physicist of
1938 1939 1939 1943 1944 1948
Calcutta Medical female Surgeon India and The First
College (1884), General in Woman Scientist
becomes India’s India, 1938. She at the TIFR (1948),
first female doctor & became the was honored by Mary Poonen Lukose Kamala Sohonie Iravati Karve Ayyalasomayajula Lalitha Asima Chatterjee Anna Mani
First female Surgeon First Indian woman First Indian female India’s first woman First woman to be First woman joined
practitioner (1886) of first woman the International
General in India to receive a PhD in a anthropologist engineer awarded a Doctor of the Meteorological
western medicine in obstetrician of Astronomical Union by scientific discipline Science by an Indian department in Pune
the whole South Asia. India. naming a white yellow University – Calcutta
dwarf star after her. University
Edavaleth Kakkat
Janaki Ammal
Kamala Sohonie
(1911-1998)
Asima Chatterjee
(1917-2006)
1961 1960 1952 1949 1948
(1897-1984) A renowned botanist First woman to be Asima Chatterjee Kamal Ranadive Rajeshwari Chatterjee Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Hansa Mehta Bibha Chowdhary
Renowned botanist & and plant cytologist awarded a Doctor of First female Established India’s first Built the first microwave Ammal First women Vice- First woman High Energy
plant cytologist, made who made significant Science by an Indian recipient of a Shanti tissue culture research lab- research laboratory of India The first Director of Chancellor of Baroda Physicist of India and First
Swarup Bhatnagar oratory at the Indian Cancer at IISc Bangalore the Central Botanical University Woman Scientist at TIFR
significant contributions contributions to University (Culcutta)
Prize in Chemical Research Centre in Mumbai Laboratory at Allahabad
to genetics, evolution, genetics, evolution, in 1944. She is the Science Category
phytogeography and phytogeography and first woman to
1961 1968 1975 1977 1978 1981
ethnobotany. First ethnobotany. First be elected as the
director of the Central director of the Central General President of
Botanical Laboratory at Botanical Laboratory at the Indian Science
Bimla Buti
Allahabad, 1952 Allahabad, 1952 Congress Satyavati M Sirsat Hiriyakkanavar Ila Archana Sharma Edavaleth Kakkat Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
First Indian woman
Founder and First woman to receive the First female received the Janaki Ammal First Woman Science
Physicist Fellow of
President of the PhD from Indian Institute Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar First Indian scientist to Entrepreneur
Iravati Karve Debala Mitra Purnima Sinha Indian National Science
Electron Microscope of Technology (IIT), Kanpur Prize in the Biological have received the Padma
Academy(INSA)
(1905-1970) (1925-2003) (1927 – 2015) Society of India Sciences category Shri Award
First Indian female First Indian An Indian physicist
1995 1994 1991 1983 1981
anthropologist. archaeologist who receives a
She founded the served as Director doctorate in physics
Department of General of the under the guidance
Anthropology at the Archaeological of Prof Satyendra Manju Sharma GV Satyavati Sudipta Sengupta Sudipta Sengupta Indira Nath Debala Mitra
University of Pune Survey of India, 1981. Nath Bose. She did First Woman First woman Director First woman geologist to & Aditi Pant First woman immunologist First woman Director-
in 1963. She also She explored and tremendous work Secretary of General of ICMR receive the Shanti Swaroop First Indian women to to receive the Shanti General of the Archaeological
held the post of the excavated several in the field of x-ray Department of Bhatnagar Award in the visit the Antarctica Swaroop Bhatnagar Survey of India
Biotechnology Earth Sciences category Award in the Medical
Vice-Chancellor of Buddhist sites. crystallography of
Sciences category
SNDT University. clay minerals.
Rajeshwari Chatterjee Anna Mani Kamal Ranadive 2001 2005 2006 2011 2015
(1922-2010) (1918-2001) (1917-2001) Ketayun Ardeshir Archana Bhattacharyya Sujatha Ramadori Tessy Thomas Renu Swaroop Sanghamitra
Women Engineer who First woman joined Established India’s first Dinshaw First woman Director First Indian Mathematician First woman scientist Establishment of India’s Bandopadhyay
pioneered research in the Meteorological tissue culture research Padma Shri for of Indian Institute of to win the prestigious ICTP to head a missile largest microbial resource First woman
microwave engineering. department in Pune, laboratory at the Indian contribution in evolution Geomagnetism, DST Ramanujan Prize project in India centre, Microbial Culture Computer Scientist &
She is the first woman 1948. She significant Cancer Research Centre of cancer treatment and Collection Director of the Indian
radiation therapy Statistical Institute
engineer at IISc who pioneer contributions in Mumbai, 1960. She was
2020 2019 2018 2017
joined the Department of in the field of solar among the first to recognise
Electrical Communication radiation, ozone the connection between
Engineering (ECE) and wind energy cancer susceptibility and
instrumentation. the interaction between Jyotirmayee Dash Chandrima Saha GC Anupama Neena Gupta Gagandeep Kang Aditi Sen De Soumya Swaminathan
hormones and tumour virus. Youngest woman First woman First woman Youngest person First Indian woman First female physicist First Indian to become
scientist to receive president of the President of the to ever receive to be elected as a awarded the Shanti WHO’s Deputy Director
Shanti Swarop Indian National Astronomical the Shanti Swarup Fellow of the Royal Swarup Bhatnagar Prize General, and also its first
Bhatnagar Award in Science Academy Society of India Bhatnagar Prize at Society chief scientist
Chemical Sciences (INSA) (ASI) the age of 35
Archana
Bhattacharyya
The
Ionospheric
Physicist Prof. Sandhya
Srikant
Neelima Gupte Visweswariah Chanda Nimbkar Saraswathi
Statistical Animal breeding
Trailblazers
Lakshmi Kantam Biochemist Manju Bansal Vishveshwara
Physicist Mannepalli Biophysicist Biophysicist
Chemical Engineer
Dr Vatsala
Chanda Jog Thirumalai
of Indian
Shobhona Astrophysicist Neurologist Archana P Mohanty
Asima Chatterjee
Sharma Sharma Hejmadi
Organic Chemist
Molecular Botanist Priya Davidar Developmental
Biologist Conservation Biology
Biologist
Science
Jyotirmayee
Tanusri Saha- Dash
Organic Sudha
Dasgupta Mythily
Dr. Ritu Karidhal Synthesis Bhattacharya
Physicist Ramaswamy Renu Swarup
Srivastava Molecular
Mary Poonen Mathematician Secretary DBT
Aerospace Biologist
Lukose Engineer
First female
Surgeon
General in India
Anandibai
Gopalrao Joshi
First Indian Sudipta Sengupta
Shubha Tole Structural R Parimala
woman doctor Annapurni Pushpa Khare Microbiologist Geologist Mathematician
Subramaniam Astrophysicist Chandrima Saha
Astrophysicist Sunita Sarawagi
and Astronomy Immunologist Computer
Bibha Science &
Edavaleth Kakkat Chowdhary Manjula Reddy Engineer
Janaki Ammal First woman Microbiologist
First director of the PhD in High
Central Botanical Energy Physics
Laboratory Neena Gupta
Mathematician
Rohini Godbole
Sudeshna Sinha Elementary
Non-linear Satyavati M
Kadambini particle Sirsat
Physicst Physicist
Ganguly Oncologist Charusita
First Indian Gagandeep Chakravarty Meena Mahajan
woman doctor Kang Quantum Chemist Computer
practitioner Microbiologist Engineer
Manju Sharma
Vidita Vaidya Biotechnologist G V Satyavati
Neuroscientist Atherosclerosis
Iravati Karve and Thrombosis Sujatha
Anna Mani Ramdorai
Antropologist Physicist Sudha Gajanan
Gangal Mathematician
Kamala Sohonie
Biochemist Rama Oncologist
Govindarajan
Chemical
Engineer Soumya
Tessy Thomas Swaminathan
Electrical Clinical Kiran
Engineer Scientist Mazumdar
Shaw
Biotech
Hiriyakkanavar Ila Veronica Entrepreneur
Rajeshwari Sulabha Organic Chemist Rodrigues
Debala Mitra Chatterjee Kashinath Biochemist
Archaeologist Electrical Kulkarni
Engineer Nanotechnologist Prof. M.S. Shaila
Bushra Ateeq Microbiologist
Oncologist
Sulochana
Purnima Sinha
Indira Nath Gadgil
Physicist
Immunologist Meteorologist R J Hans-Gill
Mathematician
Bimla Buti
Plasma Physicist
Kamal Ranadive N. Ratnashree Vijayalakshmi Renee M.
Biomedical Astrophysicist Ravindranath Ketayun Ardeshir
Borges
Scientist Darshan Neuroscientist Dr. Uma Dinshaw
Ecologist
Ranganathan Ramakrishnan Medical Science
Organic Molecular
Krishna Kamini Chemist Ecologist
Rohatgi
Mukherjee Aditi Sen Dey Sanghamitra
Dr. Seema Sharma Priyadarshini Priti Shankar Bandopadhyaya
Photochemistry Quantum
Particle Physicist Karve Computer Computer
Computation Engineer
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