Meghnad Saha (मेघनाथ साहा) (October 6 1893 – February 16 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist.
He was born on the 6th of October, 1893 in a village named Shaoratoli near Dhaka in Bangladesh.
He made a major theoretical contribution to understanding the ionization of stellar atmospheres. He derived the Saha ionization equation.
He was a student at the Presidency College, Kolkata; a professor at Allahabad University from 1923 to 1938 and thereafter a professor and Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Calcutta until his death in 1956.
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