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 University of Calcutta in 1951. Mrs Bhattacharjee specialised in the fields of structural crystallography, optical transform methods, computer programming, phase transformations, crystal growth, topography, instrumentation and made important contributions to these fields. She served as a Senior Mineralogist at the Geological Survey of India and later went on to become the Director (Mineral Physics) of the organisation. Bhattacherjee was married to Professor Siva Brata Bhattacherjee, a physicist and is survived by their son Dr Subrata Bhattacherjee and daughter Mrs Sonali Karmakar.