Famous People with Name Meghnad

Meghnad Saha            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Meghnad Saha: was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars.Saha was fortunate to have brilliant teachers and class fellows. In his student days, Jagadish Chandra Bose and Prafulla Chandra Roy were at the pinnacle of their fame. Amongst his class fellows were Satyendra Nath Bose, Jnan Ghosh and J. N. Mukherjee. In later life he was close to Amiya Charan Banerjee, a renowned mathematician at Allahabad University.Meghnad Saha's best-known work concerned the thermal ionisation of elements, and it led him to formulate what is known as the Saha equation. This equation is one of the basic tools for interpretation of the spectra of stars in astrophysics. By studying the spectra of various stars, one can find their temperature and from that, using Saha's equation, determine the ionisation state of the various elements making up the star.

Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai: is a British economist, writer and Labour politician.