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Authorised form of name	Saha; Meghnad N (1893 - 1956)
Dates	1893 - 1956
Nationality	Indian
Place of birth	Scoratali, Dacca district, India [now Bangladesh]
Date of birth	06 October 1893 or 06 October 1894
Place of death	New Delhi, India
Date of death	16/02/1956
Research field	Theoretical physics
Activity	Education: 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 category	Fellow
Date of election	12/05/1927
Source	Sources: 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
Code	NA5336

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
RR/26/129	Referee'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/65/204	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Meghnad N.] Saha; University College of Science, Calcutta	19 September 1923
NLB/65/201	Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Alfred] Fowler, FRS	19 September 1923
NLB/70/600	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Meghnad] Saha, FRS	1 June 1927
NLB/71/700	Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Meghnad] N. Saha	8 October 1928
EC/1927/12	Saha, Meghnad N: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/26/128	Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'On a physical theory of stellar spectra' by Meghnad N Saha	[January 1921]
RR/39/107	Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'New methods in statistical mechanic' by Meghnad Saha and Ramesh Chandra	[April 1929]
RR/66/323	Second 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 Vaidya	26 June 1940
RR/39/106	Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'New methods in statistical mechanic' by Meghnad Saha and Ramesh Chandra	[May 1929]
RR/62/2	Referee'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/66/327	Letter 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 Vaidya	6 November 1940
RR/66/328	Third 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 Vaidya	30 December 1940
IM/003980	Saha, Megnad N	nd
RR/66/326	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 Vaidya	27 October 1939
RR/62/3	Second 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/62/1	Referee'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/42/41	Referee'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 Sala	September 1930
RR/62/4	Referee'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/62/5	Referee'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]
RR/W/6/46	Copy letter from the Secretary of the Royal Society to [Edward Victor] Appleton, regarding a paper 'Studies on the ionosphere at Allahabad' by B D Pant and R R Bajpai	18 July 1938
RR/W/6/48	Copy letter from the Secretary of the Royal Society to [Edward Victor] Appleton, regarding a paper 'Studies on the ionosphere at Allahabad' by B D Pant and R R Bajpai	27 July 1938
RR/W/6/47	Letter from [Edward Victor] Appleton to [Frank Edward] Smith, regarding a paper 'Studies on the ionosphere at Allahabad' by B D Pant and R R Bajpai	23 July 1938
RR/W/6/43	Copy letter from the Secretary of the Royal Society to [Meghnad N] Saha, regarding a paper 'Studies on the ionosphere at Allahabad' by B D Pant and R R Bajpai	11 June 1938
RR/W/6/44	Letter from [Meghnad] N Saha to [Frank Edward] Smith, regarding a paper 'Studies on the ionosphere at Allahabad' by B D Pant and R R Bajpai	26 June 1938
RR/W/6/45	Letter from [Meghnad] N Saha to [Frank Edward] Smith, regarding a paper 'Studies on the ionosphere at Allahabad' by B D Pant and R R Bajpai	12 July 1938
RR/W/6/51	Copy letter from the Secretary of the Royal Society to [Meghnad] N Saha, regarding a paper 'Studies on the ionosphere at Allahabad' by B D Pant and R R Bajpai	25 October 1938
RR/W/6/52	Letter from [Meghnad] N Saha to Sir Frank [Edward] Smith, regarding a paper 'Studies on the ionosphere at Allahabad' by B D Pant and R R Bajpai	7 November 1938
RR/W/6/54	Copy letter from the Secretary of the Royal Society to [Edward Victor] Appleton, regarding a paper 'Studies on the ionosphere at Allahabad' by B D Pant and R R Bajpai	16 November 1938
RR/W/6/55	Letter from [Edward Victor] Appleton to [Frank Edward] Smith, regarding a paper 'Studies on the ionosphere at Allahabad' by B D Pant and R R Bajpai	21 November 1938
RR/W/6/56	Remarks by the referee, regarding a paper 'Studies on the ionosphere at Allahabad' by B D Pant and R R Bajpai	[21 November 1938]
RR/W/6/53	Reply to objections by referee from [Meghnad] N Saha, regarding a paper 'Studies on the ionosphere at Allahabad' by B D Pant and R R Bajpai	[7 November 1938]
RR/W/6/58	Copy letter from the Assistant Secretary [John David Griffith Davies] to [Meghnad] N Saha, regarding a paper 'Studies on the ionosphere at Allahabad' by B D Pant and R R Bajpai	23 January 1939
RR/W/6/60	Letter from [Meghnad] N Saha to the Secretary of the Royal Society, regarding a paper 'Studies on the ionosphere at Allahabad' by B D Pant and R R Bajpai	4 February 1939

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