biography
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| lived:
| (1894–1956)
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| biography:
| Astrophysicist, born near Dacca, W Bangladesh (formerly India). He studied at Presidency College, Calcutta, visited Europe on a travelling scholarship, became professor at Allahabad University (1923), and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1927. He worked on the thermal ionization that occurs in the extremely hot atmosphere of stars, and in 1920 demonstrated that elements in stars are ionized in proportion to their temperature, as defined in Saha's equation. In 1938 he was appointed professor of physics at Calcutta, where he was instrumental in the creation of the Calcutta Institute of Nuclear Physics. |
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