Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (died 1956)

Meghnad Saha

Indian astrophysicist and politician (1893–1956)

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.