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Meghnad Saha
Indian astrophysicist and politician (1893–1956)
Meghnad Saha (6 October 1893 – 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist who helped devise the theory of thermal ionisation.
His Saha ionisation equation allowed astronomers to accurately relate the spectral classes of stars to their actual temperatures.[1][2][3]
Biography
Meghnad Saha was born on 6 October 1893 to a low-caste Bengali Hindu family in the village of Sheoratali in Gazipur, then part of the Dacca district of the Bengal Presidency (now Bangladesh.[4][5] He was the fifth of eight children born to Jagannath Saha, a poor shopkeeper, and his wife, Bhubaneshwari Devi.[6] Due to the superstitious religious ideologies of the orthodox haughty Brahmins of the time and his childhood and career experiences of casteism, Saha developed a hatred for Hinduism from a young age.[7]
During his youth, he was forced to leave Dhaka Collegiate