M N Saha in Historical Perspective

M N Saha in Historical Perspective

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Author: Jyotirmoy Gupta
Editor: Jyotirmoy Gupta
Publisher: Thema
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 236
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186017062

Description

Early responses to his work by major contemporaries like Jeans, Eddington, Russell, Mitchell, and Harlow Shapley, a more recent scholarly documentation of his work and its repercussions, and evaluations by younger Indian scientists. They add up to offer an image of Saha as man, scientist and politician – and humanist – against the setting of the complex historic experience of colonial India moving towards independence and development.

Saha’s role in the process comes in for critical assessment, as the rich global implications mingle with the more immediately national. Aimed at both the specialist reader and the more general one, the book should serve as a fairly comprehensive account of the achievements of Saha, and what they mean to science today.

EDITOR:

Jyotirmoy Gupta, veteran journalist and science correspondent, has recently edited
(jointly with Santimay Chatterjee) M.N. Saha in Parliament for the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.

Contents

Introduction

Meghnad Saha: a Profile
D M BOSE

Meghnad Saha : a Biographical resume
D S KOTHARI

Reminiscences of the School and
College Days with Professor M N Saha
N R SEN

Professor Meghnad Saha An Appreciation
J C GHOSE

Astrophysics
JAMES JEANS

M N Saha: Spectra and Temperature
A S EDDINGTON

An Early Response
HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL

The Importance of Ionization
S A MITCHELL

The Sun’s Turbulent Surface
GEORGE GAMOW

Quantum Physics and the Stars I
DAVID H DEVORKIN AND RALPH KENAT

Quantum Physics and the Stars II
DAVID H DEVORKIN AND PALPH KENAT

A Stratospheric Observatory
HARLOW SHAPLEY

Quantitative Astronomical Spectroscopy
In the Post-Saha-Equation Period
J C BHATTACHARYYA

Professor Meghnad saha A Scientific
Phenomenon on the Indian scene
U R RAO

Meghnad Saha : His Journey to the
The Physics of the stars
BINAYAK DUTTA-ROY

The Saha Equation – Seventy Years
Later and Fifteen Billion Years Ago
BIKASH SINHA

M N Saha: From the Next generation
C K MAJUMDAR