Lilabati Bhattacharjee

Lilabati Bhattacharjee (née Ray) was a mineralogist, crystallographer and a physicist. She studied with scientist Satyendra Nath Bose, and completed her MSc in Physics from the Rajabazar Science College campus of University of Calcutta in 1951. Mrs Bhattacharjee worked in the fields of structural crystallography, optical transform methods, computer programming, phase transformations, crystal growth, topography, and instrumentation.[1] She served as a Senior Mineralogist at the Geological Survey of India, and later went on to become its Director (Mineral Physics)[2]. She was married to Siva Brata Bhattacherjee, and had two children.

Bhattacherjee at laboratory

References

1. Bednowitz, Allan L.; Segmüller, Armin P. (17 April 2013). World Directory of Crystallographers: And of Other Scientists Employing Crystallographic Methods. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9789401737012.
2. ibid