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| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1893|10|6|df=y}}&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_place       = Seoratali, [[Dhaka Division|Dhaka district]], [[Bengal Presidency]], British Raj&lt;br /&gt;
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1956|2|16|1893|10|6|df=y}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Dhaka Collegiate School]]{{ubl|[[University of Calcutta]]|[[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency University]]|[[Rajabazar Science College]]}}&lt;br /&gt;
| known_for         = {{ubl|[[Thermal ionisation]]|[[Saha ionization equation]]}}&lt;br /&gt;
| spouse            = Radha Rani Saha&lt;br /&gt;
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| doctoral_students = {{ubl|[[Samarendra Kumar Mitra]]|[[Daulat Singh Kothari]]}}&lt;br /&gt;
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| office       = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]&lt;br /&gt;
| term_start   = 3 April 1952&lt;br /&gt;
| term_end     = 16 February 1956&lt;br /&gt;
| constituency = [[Calcutta North West (Lok Sabha constituency)|Calcutta North West]]&lt;br /&gt;
| predecessor  = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Position established&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
| successor    = [[Ashoke Kumar Sen]]&lt;br /&gt;
| party        = [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Meghnad Saha&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (6 October 1893 – 16 February 1956) was an Indian [[astrophysicist]] and politician who helped devise the theory of [[Thermal ionization|thermal ionisation]]. His [[Saha ionization equation|Saha ionisation equation]] allowed astronomers to accurately relate the [[Stellar classification|spectral classes]] of [[stars]] to their actual temperatures.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;PhysicsToday&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite journal |last=Banerjee |first=Somaditya |date=1 August 2016 |title=Meghnad Saha: Physicist and nationalist |journal=Physics Today |language=en |volume=69 |issue=8 |pages=38–44 |doi=10.1063/PT.3.3267 |issn=0031-9228 |bibcode=2016PhT....69h..38B |doi-access=free}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Meghnad-N-Saha |title=Meghnad N. Saha {{!}} Indian astrophysicist |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |date=12 February 2026 |access-date=23 February 2026}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Distillations&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Kean |first1=Sam |title=A forgotten star |journal=Distillations |year=2017 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=4–5 |url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/a-forgotten-star/ |access-date=22 March 2018}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Biography==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Meghnad Saha 1934.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Meghnad Saha {{circa}} 1934]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Meghnad Saha was born on 6 October 1893 to a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] [[Bengali Hindu|Dalit]] [[hindu]] family in the village of [[Kaliakair Upazila|Sheoratali]] in [[Gazipur District|Gazipur]], then part of the [[Dhaka Division|Dacca district]] of the [[Bengal Presidency]] (now [[Bangladesh]]).&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web |last=Ramesh |first=Sandhya |date=2023-10-06 |title=Meghnad Saha—polymath, politician, pioneer scientist who is called &amp;#039;Darwin of astronomy&amp;#039; |url=https://theprint.in/theprint-profile/meghnad-saha-polymath-politician-pioneer-scientist-who-is-called-darwin-of-astronomy/1792478/ |access-date=2024-12-12 |website=ThePrint |language=en |quote=Born into a &amp;#039;lower&amp;#039; caste family, he went on to become a polymath, politician, and pioneer scientist who made several seminal contributions to the world of physics.}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite book |last=Arnold |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3gk5j2u5AnUC |title=Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India |year=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-42921-4 |pages=193 |language=en |quote=Although the list is in some respects unrepresentative of the widening range of science in late-colonial India, it reflects a growing social and regional diversity. Between 1924 and 1944 the Royal Society elected as Fellows Meghnad Saha, from a low-caste family in east Bengal, S. S. Bhatnagar (a Kayastha) and Birbal Sahni from Punjab, Homi Bhabha, a Parsi from Bombay, C. V. Raman, a Tamil Brahmin, his nephew S. Chandrasekhar, and K. S. Krishnan, Raman&amp;#039;s associate and successor as Palit Professor of Physics, also originally from south India.}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He was the fifth of eight children born to Jagannath Saha, a poor shopkeeper, and his wife, Bhubaneshwari Devi.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite journal |last=Banerjee |first=Somaditya |date=2016-08-01 |title=Meghnad Saha: Physicist and nationalist |url=https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/meghnad-saha-physicist-and-nationalist |journal=Physics Today |volume=69 |issue=8 |pages=38–44 |doi=10.1063/PT.3.3267 |bibcode=2016PhT....69h..38B |issn=0031-9228}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Having faced casteism in his childhood and professional life, Saha grew to detest the [[caste system]] from a young age.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite news |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/patrika/article-on-indian-astrophysicist-meghnad-saha-1.891680 |script-title=bn:মেঘনাথ থেকে মেঘনাদ |author=Manna, Arghya |date=3 November 2018 |work=[[Anandabazar Patrika]] |language=bn |access-date=2019-07-03}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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During his youth, he was forced to leave [[Dhaka Collegiate School]] because he participated in the [[Swadeshi movement]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Banglapedia&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{citation |author=Madhumita Mazumdar and Masud Hasan Chowdhury |chapter=Saha, Meghnad |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Saha,_Meghnad |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |editor=Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]] |year=2012 |edition=Second |access-date=6 February 2016 |archive-date=10 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110232853/http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Saha,_Meghnad |url-status=live}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; After that, he joined [[K. L. Jubilee High School &amp;amp; College]]. He earned his [[Indian School Certificate]] from [[Dhaka College]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Banglapedia&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; He was also a student at the [[Presidency College, Kolkata]], and [[Rajabazar Science College]] CU. Saha faced discrimination from other students due to his caste; when he was at the [[Eden Hindu Hostel]], communal students objected to him eating in the same dining hall as them.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;PhysicsToday&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/10/27/even-a-scientist-wasnt-spared-caste-discrimination |title=Even a scientist wasn&amp;#039;t spared caste discrimination |website=Newslaundry |date=27 October 2017}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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He was 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. He became a [[Fellow]] of the [[Royal Society]] in 1927.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite journal |last=Kothari |first=D. S. |date=1 February 1960 |title=Meghnad Saha, 1893–1956 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=5 |pages=216–236 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1960.0017 |doi-access=free |s2cid=121719435}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  He was president of the 21st session of the [[Indian Science Congress Association#Indian Science Congress sessions|Indian Science Congress]] in 1934.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Murty&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book |last1=Murty |first1=K. Krishna |title=50 timeless scientists |year=2008 |publisher=[[Pustak Mahal]] |location=Delhi |isbn=978-81-223-1030-6 |pages=97–100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WX9r7TAaWgEC&amp;amp;pg=PT51 |access-date=28 July 2017 |archive-date=26 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226090453/https://books.google.com/books?id=WX9r7TAaWgEC&amp;amp;pg=PT51 |url-status=live}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Amongst Saha&amp;#039;s classmates were [[Satyendra Nath Bose]], [[Jnan Chandra Ghosh|Jnan Ghosh]], and [[Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee]]. In his later life, he was close to Amiya Charan Banerjee.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Bose&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Bose |first1=D.M. |title=Meghnad Saha Memorial Lecture, 1965 |journal=Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy |year=1967 |volume=33A |pages=111–132 |url=http://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/Vol33A_1967_3and4_Art01.pdf |access-date=28 July 2017 |archive-date=28 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728215150/http://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/PINSA/Vol33A_1967_3and4_Art01.pdf |url-status=live}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Wali&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book |last1=Wali |first1=Kameshar C. |title=Satyendra Nath Bose : his life and times |year=2009 |publisher=[[World Scientific]] |location=Singapore |isbn=978-981-279-071-2 |page=462 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2FhDQAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA462 |access-date=28 July 2017 |archive-date=26 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226090450/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2FhDQAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA462 |url-status=live}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Career==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:M N Saha, J C Bose, J C Ghosh, Snehamoy Dutt, S N Bose, D M Bose, N R Sen, J N Mukherjee, N C Nag.jpg|thumbnail|Saha (seated on left) with other scientists at Calcutta University]]&lt;br /&gt;
Saha&amp;#039;s study of the [[thermal ionisation]] of [[chemical element|elements]] led him to formulate what is known as the [[Saha ionization equation|Saha ionisation equation]]. This equation is one of the basic tools for interpreting the [[Stellar classification|spectra of stars]]. By studying the spectra of stars, one can find their temperature and, using Saha&amp;#039;s equation, determine the ionisation state of the elements making up the star. This was extended by [[Ralph H. Fowler]] and [[Edward Arthur Milne]]. Saha had previously reached the following conclusion on the subject:&lt;br /&gt;
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{{blockquote|text=It will be admitted from what has gone before that the temperature plays the leading role in determining the nature of the stellar spectrum. Too much importance must not be attached to the figures given, for the theory is only a first attempt for quantitatively estimating the physical processes taking place at high temperature. We have practically no laboratory data to guide us, but the stellar spectra may be regarded as unfolding to us, in an unbroken sequence, the physical processes succeeding each other as the temperature is continually varied from 3000 K to 40,000 K.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |last=Hearnshaw |first=John B. |year=2014 |title=The Analysis of Starlight: Two Centuries of Astronomical Spectroscopy |edition=2nd |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=136 |isbn=978-1-107-03174-6}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Saha also invented an instrument to measure the weight and pressure of solar rays.&lt;br /&gt;
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Meghnad Saha helped to establish several scientific institutions, including the Physics Department at [[University of Allahabad|Allahabad University]] in [[United Provinces (1937–1950)|United Provinces]] (now [[Uttar Pradesh]]) and the [[Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics|Institute of Nuclear Physics]] (now [[Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics]]) in [[Kolkata]]. He founded the journal &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Science and Culture&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and was the editor until his death.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Eminent scientists published by Scholastic India pvt. Ltd.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He was the leading figure in organising several scientific societies, such as the National Academy of Science (1930), the [[Indian Physical Society]] (1934), and the [[Indian Institute of Science]] (1935). He was the director at [[Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science]] from 1953 to 1956. The [[Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics]], founded in 1943 in Kolkata, is named after him.{{Sfn|Anderson|2010|p=626}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Saha stood as a candidate for North-West Calcutta in the [[1951–52 Indian general election|1951 Lok Sabha election]]. He ran as a member of the Union of Socialists and Progressives,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web |title=Members Bioprofile |url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/981.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180306083652/http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/981.htm |archive-date=6 March 2018 |access-date=5 March 2018 |website=164.100.47.194}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web |title=Biographical Sketch of First Lok Sabha (State wise) |url=http://www.indiapress.org/election/archives/lok01/state/01lswb.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180306083659/http://www.indiapress.org/election/archives/lok01/state/01lswb.php |archive-date=6 March 2018 |access-date=5 March 2018 |website=indiapress.org}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web |title=Members : Lok Sabha |url=http://loksabha.nic.in/members/partyardetail.aspx?party_code=125&amp;amp;lsno=1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180306142321/http://loksabha.nic.in/members/partyardetail.aspx?party_code=125&amp;amp;lsno=1 |archive-date=6 March 2018 |access-date=5 March 2018 |website=loksabha.nic.in}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; but maintained his independence from the party. His goal was to improve the planning of education, industrialisation, healthcare, and river valley development. He was up against [[Prabhu Dayal Himatsingka]]. Due to low funding for his campaign, Saha wrote to the publisher of his textbook &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Treatise on Heat&amp;#039;&amp;#039; to ask for an advance of ₹5000. He was elected by a margin of 16%.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1951/VOL_1_51_LS.PDF |title=Statistical Report on General Elections, 1951 to the First Lok Sabha |access-date=5 March 2018 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120817/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1951/VOL_1_51_LS.PDF |url-status=live}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Saha participated in the areas of education, refugees, rehabilitation, atomic energy, multipurpose river projects, flood control, and long term planning. On the dust jacket flap of the book &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Meghnad Saha in Parliament,&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Saha is described as:&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Never unduly critical... forthright, so incisive, so thorough in pointing out lapses that the treasury bench was constantly on the defensive. This is brought out by the way he was accused of leaving his laboratory and straying into a territory not his own. But the reason why he was slowly drifting towards this public role (he was never a politician in the correct sense of the term) was the gradually widening gulf between his dream and the reality—between his vision of an industrialised India and the Government implementation of the plan.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.181906 |title=Meghnad Saha In Parliament |editor1-last=Chatterjee |editor1-first=Santimay |editor2-last=Gupta |editor2-first=Jyotirmoy |year=1993 |location=Calcutta |publisher=The Asiatic Society |oclc=30000871}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;Saha was the chief architect of river planning in India and prepared the original plan for the [[Damodar Valley Project]]. His own observation with respect to his transition into government projects and political affairs was:&lt;br /&gt;
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{{blockquote|text=Scientists are often accused of living in the &amp;quot;Ivory Tower&amp;quot; and not troubling their mind with realities and apart from my association with political movements in my juvenile years, I had lived in ivory tower up to 1930. But science and technology are as important for administration now-a-days as law and order. I have gradually glided into politics because I wanted to be of some use to the country in my own humble way.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |title=Meghnad Saha |url=http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/saha/sahanew.htm |access-date=31 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223073932/http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/saha/sahanew.htm |archive-date=23 February 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;}}&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Meghnad Saha with his assistant.jpg|thumb|Meghnad Saha]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==Personal life==&lt;br /&gt;
Saha married Radha Rani Saha on 16 June 1918. They had a total of 7 children: 3 sons and 4 daughters.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite Q|Q131225635}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Saha was an [[atheist]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |title=Meghnad Saha, scientist with a vision |year=1984 |publisher=National Book Trust, India |author-first1=Santimay |author-last1=Chatterjee |author-first2=Enakshi |author-last2=Chatterjee |oclc=14411992 |page=5 |quote=Even though he later came to be known as an atheist, Saha was well-versed in all religious texts— though his interest in them was purely academic.}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;{{Sfn|Anderson|2010|p=602, a self-described atheist, saha loved swimming in the river and his devout wife loved the sanctity of the spot. swimming and walking were among the few things they could do together.}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Death==&lt;br /&gt;
Saha died on the way to the hospital on 16 February 1956 after suffering from cardiac arrest. He was going to the office of the [[Planning Commission (India)|Planning Commission]] in the [[Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi|Rashtrapati Bhavan]]. It was reported he had been dealing with [[hypertension]] for ten months prior to his death.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite news |title=Nation Mourns Meghnad Saha |newspaper=The Indian Express |date=17 February 1956 |pages=1, 7}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; His remains were [[cremated]] at the [[Keoratola crematorium]], Kolkata, the following day.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite news |title=Saha&amp;#039;s Remains Cremated |newspaper=The Indian Express |date=18 February 1956}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Tributes==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:MNSaha.jpg|thumb|Bust of Saha at [[Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science]]]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Statue of Meghnad Saha.jpg|thumb|Statue of Saha, [[University College of Science, Technology &amp;amp; Agriculture]]]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Meghnad Saha bust BITM.JPG|thumb|Bust of Saha at [[Birla Industrial &amp;amp; Technological Museum]]]]&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;Meghnad Saha&amp;#039;s ionization equation (c. 1920), which opened the door to stellar astrophysics was one of the top ten achievements of 20th century Indian science [and] could be considered in the Nobel Prize class.&amp;quot; — [[Jayant Narlikar]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |author=Narlikar, Jayant |title=The Scientific Edge: The Indian Scientist from Vedic to Modern Times |year=2003 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |isbn=978-0-14-303028-7 |page=127}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;The impetus given to astrophysics by Saha&amp;#039;s work can scarcely be overestimated, as nearly all later progress in this field has been influenced by it and much of the subsequent work has the character of refinements of Saha&amp;#039;s ideas.&amp;quot; — [[Svein Rosseland]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |author=Rosseland, S. |title=Theoretical Astrophysics |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1939 |url=http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/saha/sahanew.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223073932/http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/saha/sahanew.htm |archive-date=23 February 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;quot;He (Saha) was extremely simple, almost austere, in his habits and personal needs. Outwardly, he sometimes gave an impression of being remote, matter of fact, and even harsh, but once the outer shell was broken, one invariably found in him a person of extreme warmth, deep humanity, sympathy and understanding; and though almost altogether unmindful of his own personal comforts, he was extremely solicitous in the case of others. It was not in his nature to placate others. He was a man of undaunted spirit, resolute determination, untiring energy and dedication.&amp;quot; — [[Daulat Singh Kothari]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book |author=Kothari, D. S. |title=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the National Institute of Sciences of India |volume=2 |publisher=National Institute of Sciences of India |location=New Delhi |year=1970 |url=http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/saha/sahanew.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223073932/http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/saha/sahanew.htm |archive-date=23 February 2015}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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* {{cite book |last=Anderson |first=Robert S. |title=Nucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-226-01977-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3BcKqXOeSbAC}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Further reading==&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite journal |title=Stars, Peripheral Scientists, and Equations: The Case of M. N. Saha |author=Dasgupta, Deepanwita |year=2015 |journal=Physics in Perspective |volume=17 |issue=2 |doi=10.1007/s00016-015-0159-7 |pages=83–106 |bibcode=2015PhP....17...83D |s2cid=118224210}}&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/Obs../0076//0000040.000.html Obituary - &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Observatory&amp;#039;&amp;#039; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;76&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1956) 40]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0068//0000282.000.html Obituary – &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific&amp;#039;&amp;#039; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;68&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1956) 282]&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book |last1=Venkataraman |first1=Ganeshan |author-link1=Ganeshan Venkataraman |title=Saha and His Formula |year=1995 |publisher=University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TCbjwQmaXawC |isbn=978-81-7371-017-9}}&lt;br /&gt;
* Jibamitra Ganguly: &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Meghnad Saha : his science and persona through letters and writings&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi 2019.&lt;br /&gt;
* Collected works of Meghnad Saha. ed. by Santimay Chatterjee. Calcutta [u.a.]: Institute of Nuclear Physics [u.a.], 1982.&lt;br /&gt;
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* {{Internet Archive author|name=Meghnad Saha}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite web |title=Meghnad Saha |url=http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/saha/sahanew.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223073932/http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/saha/sahanew.htm |archive-date=23 February 2015}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite web |title=Meghnad Saha biography |url=http://www.calcuttaweb.com/people/msaha.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010627220307/http://www.calcuttaweb.com/people/msaha.shtml |archive-date=27 June 2001 |access-date=22 December 2007 |url-status=dead}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite web |title=Saha Equation |url=http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/SahaEquation.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060503040640/http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/SahaEquation.html |archive-date=3 May 2006 |access-date=17 July 2004 |url-status=live}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{YouTube|7z9NUV_YrOo|The Quantum Indians: film on Meghnad Saha, Bose and Raman}} by [[Raja Choudhury]] and produced by PSBT and [[Indian Public Diplomacy]].&lt;br /&gt;
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