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VIVA BOOKS - ORIGINALS Darwin of Stellar Astrophysics: Meghnad Saha by Shyamal Bhadra Rik Chattopadhyay Ajoy Ghatak
Professor Meghnad Saha was a great institution builder and had contributed so much for the betterment of our country. This book is a unique compilation of articles on Professor Saha written by his family members and also by eminent personalities; each article shows great contributions made by Professor Saha. Few important lectures delivered by Professor Saha are included to show his thoughts on restructuring scientific programmes and national planning for the betterment of society in pre-and post-colonial period. Apart from scientific works correspondences with Subhas Chandra Bose during the formation of National Planning Committee mark interesting features of the book. Also reprinted is a 2011 paper (jointly by Russian and German research groups) which describes the importance of Professor Saha’s ionization theory after 90 years of its discovery; this paper should be of great interest to astrophysicists. The article on the creation of Positional Astronomy Centre (PAC) at Kolkata has been written with great zeal and emotion by Professor Amalendu Bandyopadhyay M.P. Birla Institute of Fundamental Research Kolkata and former director of PAC; the article would provide an account how it was conceptualized by Meghnad Saha as a part of Indian Meteorological Department.