| 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,
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 12/05/1927 |
| Sources | 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 |
| Royal Society code | NA5336 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/003980 | Saha, Megnad N | nd |
| 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 |
| 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] |