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Meghnad Saha

1893 - 1956

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Meghnad Saha (6 October 1893 – 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist who helped devise the theory of thermal ionisation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meghnad Saha has received more than 1,057,965 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Meghnad Saha is the 445th most popular physicist (down from 417th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Bangladesh (down from 12th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Bangladeshi Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Meghnad Saha ranks 445 out of 851. Before him are Robert W. Wood, Heinrich Rubens, Walther Meissner, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Richard C. Tolman, and Gabriele Veneziano. After him are Johannes Franz Hartmann, Lyman Spitzer, Hagen Kleinert, Louis Harold Gray, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, and Boris Podolsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Meghnad Saha ranks 115. Before him are Farabundo Martí, Cedric Gibbons, Ba Maw, José Calvo Sotelo, Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, and Paul van Zeeland. After him are George Ohsawa, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Ernst Marischka, Frederick William Franz, José María Velasco Ibarra, and Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1956, Meghnad Saha ranks 84. Before him are Evelyn Beatrice Hall, George Sarton, Felix Bernstein, Aino Kallas, Auguste Chevalier, and Alexander Gretchaninov. After him are Ernest King, Charles Joughin, Eduardo Lonardi, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, André Marty, and Clifford Brown.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Meghnad Saha ranks 15 out of 74. Before him are William Beveridge (1879), Mohammed Shahabuddin (1949), Begum Rokeya (1880), Zillur Rahman (1929), Ziaur Rahman (1936), and Chittaranjan Das (1869). After him are Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894), Iajuddin Ahmed (1931), Anandamayi Ma (1896), Bipin Chandra Pal (1858), Matsyendranatha (901), and Tajuddin Ahmad (1925).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Bangladesh

Among physicists born in Bangladesh, Meghnad Saha ranks 2. Before him are Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858).

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