Indian Astronomers: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Meghnad Saha, Aryabhata, Bh Skara II, Nilakantha Somayaji, Venkatraman Radhakrishnan

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Meghnad Saha, Aryabhata, Bh skara II, Nilakantha Somayaji, Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, Jye hadeva, Vinod Johri, Jayant Narlikar, Vasistha, Thanu Padmanabhan, Yajnavalkya, Golagrama, Parameshvara, Priyamvada Natarajan, Var hamihira, J. J. Rawal, Mohan Apte, r pati, Vainu Bappu, Utpala, Sankara Varman, Achyuta Pisharati, Somnath Bharadwaj, Agnes Giberne, Vatasseri Parameshwaran Nambudiri, Lalla, Gautama Siddha, Ramana Athreya, Y. P. Varshni, P. Devadas, Kelallur Neelakandhan Somayaji, Mrinal Kumar Das Gupta, Sankara Variar, Amil Kumar Das, Jagannatha Samrat, Brahmadeva, Govind Swarup, Damodara, Bapudeva Sastri, Mahendra S ri, Sandip Chakrabarti, Kamalakara, Achyuta Panikkar, Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri, Aryabhata II, Radha Gobinda Chandra. Excerpt: Meghnad Saha FRS (Bengali: ) (6 October 1893 - 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars. Meghnad Saha was born in a small village named Seoratali, about 40 km from Dhaka (in present Bangladesh). The youngest of the five sons of Jagannath Saha and Bhubaneswari Debi, Meghnad belonged to a poor family and struggled to rise in life. His father was reluctant to allow him to undergo higher education; he wanted him to assist him in shopkeeping. With some persuasion from his eldest son Jayant and Meghnad's primary school teachers, he relented, and Meghnad went to the neighbouring village to live there and attend an English-medium school. Here he was lucky in that one Mr. Ananta Kumar Das, a medical practitioner, took interest in Meghnad and offered him free boarding and lodging. In 1905, he joined the Dhaka Collegiate School. Here he not only received a free studentship, but also a stipend. However he lost both his free studentship... View Less