Meghnad Saha, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Meghnad Saha

Indian physicist

Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1893

Place of Birth: Bangladesh

Date of Death: 16-Feb-1956

Profession: astronomer, politician, physicist, astrophysicist, university teacher

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Meghnad Saha FRS (6 October 1893 – 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars.
Cecilia Payne was the first scientist to relate a star's spectrum to its temperature, using Saha's work in developing thermal ionization equations that have been foundational in the fields of astrophysics and astrochemistry.
He was repeatedly and unsuccessfully nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Saha was also politically active and was elected in to the Parliament of India in 1952.