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By Our Special Correspondent
BANGALORE, DEC. 8. Sree Ramanujam, physicist and one of the first women from the State to obtain a doctorate from a foreign university, passed away here on Wednesday. She was 92 and is survived by a daughter and two grandchildren. Another of her daughters died in an air crash in 1959. Her husband, Ramanuja Iyengar, was a college professor. Dr. Sree Ramanujam graduated from the Central College in 1931 and obtained a master's degree. She was among the first lecturers in the Maharani's College for Women established in 1939. She later taught at the Central College. Leaving for the United States in the mid-1940s, she obtained a doctorate in physics from the University of California (Berkeley) U.S. One of those to vet her doctoral thesis was the renowned Oppenheimer. After resuming her teaching at the Central College, Dr. Sree Ramanujam took up a teaching assignment in the University of Liberia in Africa. Dr. Sree Ramanujam belonged to a distinguished family of Basavanagudi in the city. Her father was a pathologist in the Victoria Hospital here.
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