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Rajeshwari Chatterjee

1922 - 2010

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Rajeshwari Chatterjee (24 January 1922 – 3 September 2010) was an Indian scientist and an academic. She was the first woman engineer from Karnataka and described herself as an engineering-scientist. During her tenure at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Chatterjee was a professor and later chairperson of the department of Electrical Communication Engineering. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Rajeshwari Chatterjee is the 371st most popular engineer (down from 345th in 2024), the 1,062nd most popular biography from India (down from 852nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Indian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Rajeshwari Chatterjee ranks 371 out of 389. Before her are Pat Fry, Mike Gascoyne, Mike Coughlan, John Rennie the Elder, John Houbolt, and James Allison. After her are Sergey Volkov, Sydney Camm, Charles Ingram, C. H. Douglas, Nick Wirth, and Naoki Hattori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Rajeshwari Chatterjee ranks 450. Before her are Ken Hughes, Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Gil Merrick, Andy Phillip, Joan Caulfield, and Audrey Meadows. After her are Graham Whitehead, Eugenie Clark, Audrey Long, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Lamont Johnson, and Syd Owen. Among people deceased in 2010, Rajeshwari Chatterjee ranks 464. Before her are Anna Samokhina, Nodar Kumaritashvili, Gil Merrick, Frank Fenner, Jacinto Villalba, and William B. Saxbe. After her are Jim Fuchs, Walter Frederick Morrison, June Havoc, Mano Solo, Juan Carlos Arteche, and Wally Hickel.

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In India

Among people born in India, Rajeshwari Chatterjee ranks 1,062 out of 1,861. Before her are Bappi Lahiri (1952), Arun Shourie (1941), V. Shantaram (1901), Begum Samru (1746), Tina Desai (1987), and Nandini Satpathy (1931). After her are Anita Hassanandani (1981), Ramdev (1965), Pankaj Udhas (1951), Arijit Singh (1987), Kunal Kapoor (1977), and Aruna Roy (1946).

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Among ENGINEERS In India

Among engineers born in India, Rajeshwari Chatterjee ranks 4. Before her are Percy Hobart (1885), Arthur E. Kennelly (1861), and Verghese Kurien (1921). After her are Tessy Thomas (1963).

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