Born 26 January 1922 in Bangalore, India, Rajeswari Chatterjee was educated in Bangalore and obtained a B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. degrees at Mysore University in 1942 and 1943. She worked as a research student in the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, from 1944 to 1947. She next studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from 1947 to 1953 and received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering. She was married to Sisir Chatterjee in 1953, and her daughter Indira was born in 1956. Rajeswari was a faculty member of the Indian Institute for Science, Bangalore, from 1953 to 1982. She has been visiting her daughter and family in Reno periodically since 1990, but still resides principally in India.

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