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Authorised form of nameSaha; Meghnad N (1893 - 1956)
Dates1893 - 1956
NationalityIndian
Place of birthScoratali, Dacca district, India [now Bangladesh]
Date of birth06 October 1893 or 06 October 1894
Place of deathNew Delhi, India
Date of death16/02/1956
Research fieldTheoretical physics
ActivityEducation:
DSc
Career:
Professor of Physics, University of Allahabad
Wanted to set up a modern research laboratory in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), but was not very successful. Moved to Allahabad University but returned in 1938. Became interested in nuclear physics; established Institute of Nuclear Physics which was later named after him as Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (1947). Took the first step to include nuclear physics in the higher studies of science. In order to develop and popularise science, he even went into politics and was elected Member of Parliament in 1951.
Professor Meghnad Desai,
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/05/1927
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1959 vol 5 pp 217-236, plate, by D S Kothari
R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64
R Singh 'India's Physics and Chemistry Nobel Prize nominators and nominees in colonial and international context' NR 2007 Vol 61 pp 333-346
Notes:
DSB gives death date as 06 October 1894
CodeNA5336
Archives associated with this Fellow
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RR/26/129Referee's report by Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, on a paper 'On a physical theory of stellar spectra' by Meghnad N Saha[February 1921]
NLB/65/204Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Meghnad N.] Saha; University College of Science, Calcutta19 September 1923
NLB/65/201Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Alfred] Fowler, FRS19 September 1923
NLB/70/600Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Meghnad] Saha, FRS1 June 1927
NLB/71/700Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Meghnad] N. Saha8 October 1928
EC/1927/12Saha, Meghnad N: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/26/128Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'On a physical theory of stellar spectra' by Meghnad N Saha[January 1921]
RR/39/107Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'New methods in statistical mechanic' by Meghnad Saha and Ramesh Chandra[April 1929]
RR/66/323Second letter to Meghnad N Saha, regarding two papers 'A spectroscopic investigation of hydrocarbon flames' and 'Spectroscopic observations on hydrocarbon flames in atomic oxygen' by W M Vaidya26 June 1940
RR/39/106Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'New methods in statistical mechanic' by Meghnad Saha and Ramesh Chandra[May 1929]
RR/62/2Referee's report by Owen Willans Richardson, on a paper 'On the action of ultra-violet sunlight upon the upper atmosphere' by Meghnad N Saha[November 1936]
RR/66/327Letter from Meghnad N Saha, regarding two papers 'A spectroscopic investigation of hydrocarbon flames' and 'Spectroscopic observations on hydrocarbon flames in atomic oxygen' by W M Vaidya6 November 1940
RR/66/328Third letter to Meghnad N Saha, regarding two papers 'A spectroscopic investigation of hydrocarbon flames' and 'Spectroscopic observations on hydrocarbon flames in atomic oxygen' by W M Vaidya30 December 1940
IM/003980Saha, Megnad Nnd
RR/66/326Letter to Meghnad N Saha, regarding two papers 'A spectroscopic investigation of hydrocarbon flames' and 'Spectroscopic observations on hydrocarbon flames in atomic oxygen' by W M Vaidya27 October 1939
RR/62/3Second referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'On the action of ultra-violet sunlight upon the upper atmosphere' by Meghnad N Saha[February 1937]
RR/62/1Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'On the action of ultra-violet sunlight upon the upper atmosphere' by Meghnad N Saha[November 1936]
RR/42/41Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The distribution of intensity amongst the fine structure components of series lines of hydrogen and ionised helium according to Dirac's theory of the electron' by Meghnad SalaSeptember 1930
RR/62/4Referee's report by Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, on a paper 'On the action of ultra-violet sunlight upon the upper atmosphere' by Meghnad N Saha[September 1936]
RR/62/5Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'On the action of ultra-violet sunlight upon the upper atmosphere' by Meghnad N Saha[September 1936]
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