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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. His Saha ionisation equation allowed astronomers to accurately relate the spectral classes of stars to their actual temperatures. Saha's equation is considered one of the ten most outstanding discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics since Galileo's invention of the telescope in 1608. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meghnad Saha has received more than 1,000,491 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Meghnad Saha is the 417th most popular physicist (up from 486th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Bangladesh (up from 16th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Bangladeshi Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Meghnad Saha ranks 417 out of 717. Before him are Auguste Bravais, Douglas Hofstadter, Erich Hückel, Homi J. Bhabha, Federico Faggin, and Yoshio Nishina. After him are Vladimir Fock, John C. Mather, Heinrich Barkhausen, Martin Knudsen, Johannes Franz Hartmann, and Jules Jamin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Meghnad Saha ranks 110. Before him are Władysław Strzemiński, Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony, Madeleine Astor, Alfréd Schaffer, Farabundo Martí, and Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa. After him are Cedric Gibbons, Ernst Marischka, Bugs Moran, Rued Langgaard, Mina Witkojc, and Jean Acker. Among people deceased in 1956, Meghnad Saha ranks 89. Before him are Jean Metzinger, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Vladimir Obruchev, Victor Young, Walter Gieseking, and Charles Joughin. After him are Heinrich Barkhausen, André Marty, Carl Brockelmann, Louis Rosier, Marcel Griaule, and Max Beerbohm.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Meghnad Saha ranks 12 out of 57. Before him are Sheikh Hasina (1947), William Beveridge (1879), Chandragupta I (250), Sri Chinmoy (1931), Zillur Rahman (1929), and Ziaur Rahman (1936). After him are Begum Rokeya (1880), Anandamayi Ma (1896), Mahasweta Devi (1926), Mir Jafar (1691), Iajuddin Ahmed (1931), and Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894).

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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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