
Indian astrophysicist, institution builder and parliamentarian Meghnad Saha, who developed the ‘ionization theory’ and its application to the interpretation of stellar spectra, was born on 6 October 1893 in a village near Dhaka (now in Bangladesh). The fifth child of Jagannath, a grocer, and Bhubneshwari Devi, Saha studied at a village school and then joined the Government Collegiate School in... Read More →