Important Events of October – 06

2019-10-06

Birth:

Meghnad Saha was born on October 6 in 1893 in Shaoratoli, a village near Dhaka.

Biography:

He is the Son of Jagannath Saha, Meghnad belonged to a poor family and struggled to rise in life.
His Indian School Certificate was earned from Dhaka College.
He was also a student at the Presidency College, Kolkata; 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 Fellow of the Royal Society in 1927. He was president of the 21st session of the Indian Science Congress in 1934.
Saha was fortunate to have brilliant teachers and class fellows. In his student days, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Sarada Prasanna Das and Prafulla Chandra Ray 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.

Death:

Saha died on 16 February 1956 of a cardiac arrest in New Delhi. He was on his way to the office of the Planning Commission in Rashtrapati Bhavan, when he collapsed a few yards away from there. He died on the way, when being taking to a hospital, at 10:15 a.m. (IST). Saha, it was reported, had been suffering from hypertension for ten months prior to his death.
His remains were cremated at the Keoratola crematorium in Kolkata the following day.