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Encyclopedia > Meghnad Saha

Meghnad Saha (मेघनाथ साहा) (October 6, 1893 – February 16, 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist.


He made a major theoretical contribution to understanding the ionization of stellar atmospheres. He derived the Saha ionization equation.


He was a professor at Allahabad University from 1923 to 1938 and thereafter a professor and Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Calcutta until his death in 1956.


External links

  • ScienceWorld: Saha Equation (http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/SahaEquation.html)
  • Biographical info (http://www-cmp.saha.ernet.in/~kausik/mnsarch/index.php?pg=6)

Obituaries

  • Obs 76 (1956) 40 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/Obs../0076//0000040.000.html) (one sentence)
  • PASP 68 (1956) 282 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0068//0000282.000.html) (one paragraph)

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| International School of Photonics | ISP Knowledge Portal | Great Indian Scientists | (1422 words)
Meghnad Saha was born on October 6, 1893 in Sheoratali, a village in the District of Dacca, now in Bangladesh.
In 1927, Meghnad was elected as a fellow of London's Royal Society.He invented an instrument to measure the weight and pressure of solar rays.
Saha was the leading spirit in organizing the scientific societies like the 'National Academy of Science' (1930), 'Indian Institute of Science' (1935) and the 'Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science' (1944).
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