1. Meghnad Saha was an Indian astrophysicist who helped devise the theory of thermal ionisation.
23 Facts About Meghnad Saha
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Meghnad Saha was the fifth of eight children born to Jagannath Saha, a poor shopkeeper, and his wife, Bhubaneshwari Devi.
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Meghnad Saha earned his Indian School Certificate from Dhaka College.
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Meghnad Saha was a student at the Presidency College, Kolkata and Rajabazar Science College CU.
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Meghnad Saha faced discrimination from other students due to his caste; when he was at the Eden Hindu Hostel, communal students objected to him eating in the same dining hall as them.
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Meghnad Saha 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.
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Meghnad Saha became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1927.
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Meghnad Saha was president of the 21st session of the Indian Science Congress in 1934.
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Amongst Meghnad Saha's classmates were Satyendra Nath Bose, Jnan Ghosh and Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee.
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Meghnad Saha had previously reached the following conclusion on the subject:.
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Meghnad Saha invented an instrument to measure the weight and pressure of solar rays.
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Meghnad Saha helped to establish several scientific institutions, including the Physics Department at Allahabad University in United Provinces and the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kolkata.
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Meghnad Saha founded the journal Science and Culture and was the editor until his death.
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Meghnad Saha was the leading figure in organising several scientific societies, such as the National Academy of Science, the Indian Physical Society, and the Indian Institute of Science.
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Meghnad Saha was the director at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science from 1953 to 1956.
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Meghnad Saha stood as a candidate for North-West Calcutta in the 1951 Lok Sabha election.
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Meghnad Saha ran as a member of the Union of Socialists and Progressives, but maintained his independence from the party.
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Meghnad Saha's goal was to improve the planning of education, industrialisation, healthcare, and river valley development.
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Meghnad Saha participated in the areas of education, refugees, rehabilitation, atomic energy, multipurpose river projects, flood control, and long term planning.
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Meghnad Saha was the chief architect of river planning in India and prepared the original plan for the Damodar Valley Project.
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Meghnad Saha died on the way to the hospital on 16 February 1956 after getting cardiac arrest.
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Meghnad Saha was going to the office of the Planning Commission in the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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Meghnad Saha's remains were cremated at the Keoratola crematorium, Kolkata the following day.