Meghnad Saha was an Indian astrophysicist 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.
Bardhaman, officially Bardhaman Sadar, is a city and municipality in the state of West Bengal, India. It is the headquarters of Purba Bardhaman district, having become a district capital during the period of British rule. Burdwan, an alternative name for the city, has remained in use since then.
Netaji Subhas Open University (NSOU) is a state open university imparting distance education in eastern India.
Hare School is one of the oldest schools in Kolkata, India, teaching grades one to twelve under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. It is a state government-administered boys school and was established by the Scottish watch-maker, David Hare. The establishment date is not agreed upon, but the official year of establishment is 1818. Thus the school is declared as the oldest western type school in Asia. The school is situated opposite the Presidency University, and is also adjacent to the University of Calcutta and Hindu School. The combined campuses of the Hare School and Presidency College is one of the largest in Kolkata.
Rajpur Sonarpur is a city and a municipality of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).
Daulat Singh Kothari was an Indian scientist and educationist.
Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology is a private college located in West Bengal, India. The college is located in the eastern suburb of the city at Nazirabad, Rajpur Sonarpur. The college is approved by the AICTE and the Directorate of Technical Education, and is affiliated with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology.
The University of Burdwan is a public state university located in Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, India. It was established by the West Bengal Government as a teaching and affiliating university on 15 June 1960 with six graduate departments and 30 undergraduate colleges spread over three districts that come under the jurisdiction of the university. The university currently offers more than 30 undergraduate and 66 postgraduate courses. It has grown as the second largest state university in West Bengal after University of Calcutta. Over the years, the University has consistently performed in the NIRF ranking by securing rank within top 100 under ‘University’ Category and occupied the rank of 89, 92, 85 and 87 in the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively.
Raiganj subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Uttar Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Techno India Group is a private educational conglomerate group in India. The main office of this group is situated in Salt Lake City in Kolkata, West Bengal.
Bikash Sinha was an Indian physicist who was active in the fields of nuclear physics and high energy physics. Sinha was the director of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre and the chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur in June 2005. He was also a member of scientific advisory board to the Prime Minister of India.
Alamohan Das was an industrialist in pre-independence and post-independence Bengal. He ventured into various industries like jute, cotton, heavy machinery, drug, banking etc. He is known for his role in the India Machinery Company, one of the earliest indigenous machine making industries of India.
Basanti Dulal Nag Chaudhuri was an Indian Nuclear scientist and academic, and Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. He is known as one of the pioneers of nuclear physics in India. While serving as the Director General (chairman) to the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), he played influential role in Pokhran-I , India's first successful Nuclear bomb test on 18 May 1974. This historic achievement made India the sixth nation in the world to become a nuclear superpower, after the United States of America, Soviet Union, England, France, and China. He also initiated the first feasibility studies on India's ballistic missile program.
Dr. Meghnad Saha College is a college in Itahar in the Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal, India. The college is affiliated to University of Gour Banga, offering undergraduate courses.
Baishya Saha or Saha, is a Bengali Hindu trading caste traditionally known to have the occupation of grocers, shopkeepers, dealers, moneylenders, and farmers.
Trilochan Pradhan was an Indian scientist.
Dr. Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, established in 1998, is a government polytechnic and degree engineering institute; located in Haldia, Purba Medinipur district, West Bengal. This polytechnic is affiliated to the West Bengal State Council of Technical and Vocational Education and Skill Development, and recognised by AICTE, New Delhi. This polytechnic offers Diploma in Engineering courses in Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Computer Science & Technology, Chemical, Petro Chemical, Mechanical and Civil Engineering.
Itahar is a census town in Itahar CD block in Raiganj subdivision of Uttar Dinajpur district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Paul Johannes Brühl was a German-origin professor of botany who worked in India, mainly at the Presidency College, Calcutta.
