Chromosome Woman, Nomad Scientist: E.K. Janaki Ammal, a Life 1897-1984

This volume:
is the first in-depth and archive-based analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist
presents a dazzling portrait of the twentieth century through the eyes of a pioneering Indian woman scientist- the rise of Nazi Germany and World War II, the struggle for Indian Independence, the social relations of science movement, the Lysenko affair, the so-called green revolution, the dawn of environmentalism