Reshmi Mukherjee
{{short description|Indian-American astrophysicist}}
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Reshmi Mukherjee is an Indian-American astrophysicist known for her research on gamma-ray astronomy and blazars, involving work based on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory,{{r|sciam|newsci}} VERITAS,{{r|csm}} Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET), and Cherenkov Telescope Array collaborations.{{r|cta}} She is Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Barnard College.{{r|barnard}}
Education and career
Mukherjee writes that she was inspired to go into physics by her father, who encouraged her in it despite his own lack of a college education.{{r|pioneers}}
She graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics from Presidency College, at the time part of the University of Calcutta, in 1986, and earned a master's degree there in 1989. She went to Columbia University for graduate study, under the supervision of Elena Aprile, and completed her Ph.D. in physics at Columbia in 1993.{{r|cv04}}
After postdoctoral research with the EGRET project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and a visiting position at McGill University, she joined the Barnard faculty in 1997.{{r|barnard|cv04}}
Mukherjee's teaching includes introducing undergraduates to research by bringing them on visits to the ground-based observatories she works with{{r|intro}} and by including them in the analysis of data from the observatories.{{r|escape}}
As a faculty member at Barnard, she also teaches physics at Columbia University.{{r|role}}
Recognition
Mukherjee was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2017, after a nomination from the APS Division of Astrophysics, "for advancing multifrequency strategies for the identification of gamma-ray sources and contributing significant leadership in blazar studies between the GeV and TeV gamma-ray bands".{{r|faps}}
References
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{{citation|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2680-galaxy-clusters-radiate-gamma-ray-fog/|magazine=New Scientist|date=August 15, 2002|first=Will|last=Knight|title=Galaxy clusters radiate gamma ray "fog"}}
{{citation|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/galaxy-clusters-may-be-ma/|title=Galaxy Clusters May Be Main Source of Universe's Gamma Rays|magazine=Scientific American|first=Sarah|last=Graham|date=August 16, 2002}}
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External links
- [http://user.astro.columbia.edu/~muk/ Home page]
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