A Jewel Unearthed:Bibha Chowdhuri. The Story of an Indian Woman Scientist

Rajinder Singh and S. C. Roy are both well established historians of science dealing with contributions of Indian Scientists of Calcutta School. The monograph under review is the 23rd volume in the series produced by Rajinder Singh. I was attracted by the title of this book as Bibha Chowdhuri participated in Third National SSNTD (Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors) Conference organized by me in Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar in March 1983. She never retired from research and was the oldest delegate at 70 to present her paper in Amritsar. I was pleased to share a group photo of this conference and her paper with the authors for inclusion in this monograph.