Chromosome Woman, Nomad Scientist - Nair, Savithri Preetha
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This is the first in-depth and analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist â Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal (1897-1984). Using a wide range of archival sources, it presents a dazzling portrait of the twentieth century through the eyes of a pioneering Indian woman scientist.

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This is the first in-depth and analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist â Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal (1897-1984). Using a wide range of archival sources, it presents a dazzling portrait of the twentieth century through the eyes of a pioneering Indian woman scientist.
Autorenporträt
Savithri Preetha Nair received her doctorate in 2003, from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, for her dissertation on the museum and the shaping of the sciences in colonial India. Nair's research interests include history of science, modernity and enlightenment at the turn of the nineteenth century, history and politics of collecting for science, sociology of knowledge, the public museum and women in science in colonial and post-colonial India. Among her publications is the co-authored (with Richard Axelby) Science and the Changing Environment in India: A Guide to Sources in the India Office Records 1780-1920 (British Library, London, 2010), and the monograph, Raja Serfoji II: Science, Medicine and Enlightenment in Tanjore, 1786-1832 (Routledge, 2012), besides several papers in peer-reviewed international journals and edited volumes. Nair is an independent scholar and divides her time between London and Kerala.