Hindustan Times: Scientists, academicians laud Meghnad Saha’s contributions towards science, society
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Meghnad Saha
Meghnad Saha was an Indian astrophysicist and politician who helped devise the theory of thermal ionisation. His Saha ionisation equation allowed astronomers to accurately relate the spectral classes of stars to their actual temperatures.
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science · Indian astrophysicist and politician (1893–1956) · university teacher · astrophysicist · physicist · astronomer · politician · also Meghnad Saha, Prof. Meghnad Saha, Meghmad Saha, Saha
Born 6 October 1893 · Died 16 February 1956 · Q377898
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2023· 1 entry
2020· 2 entries
Hindustan Times: Meghnad Saha: Shining star of astrophysics
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Published “The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues” in Science — cited 5,388 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Published “LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products” in The Astrophysical Journal — cited 3,531 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 5,088 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013” in The Lancet — cited 5,007 times.
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2013· 1 entry
Published “Burden and aetiology of diarrhoeal disease in infants and young children in developing countries (the Global Enteric Multicenter Study, GEMS): a prospective, case-control study” in The Lancet — cited 3,179 times.
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2012· 5 entries
Indiatimes: 55 yrs on, Meghnad Saha’s green design gets shape
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Published “Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 6,636 times.
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Published “Gold Nanoparticles in Chemical and Biological Sensing” in Chemical Reviews — cited 4,395 times.
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Published “Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 6,819 times.
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Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis” in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society — cited 4,313 times.
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2008· 1 entry
Published “Monitoring dopants by Raman scattering in an electrochemically top-gated graphene transistor” in Nature Nanotechnology — cited 3,351 times.
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1996· 1 entry
Published “The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project” in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society — cited 18,867 times.
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1977· 1 entry
“The Causal Theory of Space-Time”
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1956· 1 entry
Died 1956-02-16.
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1952· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the 1st Lok Sabha (1952–1957).
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1905· 1 entry
While the Banga-bhanga movement was underway, Saha had taken part in a movement protesting against the British Governor visiting his school; and was thus expelled
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1893· 1 entry
Born 1893-10-06.
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