Born: 1941 (circa), India (assumed)
Died: NA
Country most active: India
Also known as: NA
The following was written by Nina Baker and is excerpted from the book From Alchemy to Transport Phenomena: A Global History of Women in Chemical Engineering.
The experiences of barriers to overcome show that the route into chemical engineering for women in India was not smooth and it was not until the 1960s, when the first Indian woman thought to be to have qualified as a chemical engineer is Professor Mamata Mukhopadhyay. She gained her first class BChE in 1963 from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, also being awarded the Acharya P.C. Ray Award by the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers for her final year BChE Design Project (1964). Her M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, W.Bengal (1965) took her to the USA where she was a doctoral Research Associate at the National Science Foundation, at the Ohio State University, gaining her PhD in 1969. She went on to a long career at IIT (Kanpur, Delhi and Bombay), rising to professor in 1987 and has over 180 publications and 7 patents, plus many national and international awards, amongst which are 2 papers about Resorcinol, in a coincidental parallel with Elizabeth Smith’s work some 80 years previously in the UK.