Meghnad saha biography of william

(b. Scoratali, Dacca district India [now Bangladesh], 6 October 1894; d. New Delhi India, 16 February 1956)

theoretical physics.

Saha was the fifth child of Jagannath Saha, a small shopkeeper, and Bhubaneswari Debi.

Meghnad saha biography of william

The family lived in modest circumstances, and Saha was able to go to primary school through the kindness of a local partron. He entered the Government Collegiate School on a scholarship when he was eleven, but was soon expelled for participating in a political demonstration; he then attended a private school and, in 1911, enrolled in the Calcutta Presidency College.

He received the M.A. in applied mathematics in 1915 and, in the following year, was appointed lecturer in mathematics on the all Indian faculty of the University College of Science, which had just been founded by Sir Astosh Mukherjee.

A personality conflict with the chairman of the mathematics department soon led Saha to transfer to the department of physics, where he taught and did r