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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: People from Dhaka, Upazilas of Dhaka District, Meghnad Saha, Riaz, Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Ritwik Ghatak, Savar Upazila, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Shakib Khan, Mahasweta Devi, Bimal Roy, Debabrata Basu, Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, Chanchal Chowdhury, Nalini Kanta Bhattasali, Mim Bidya Sinha Saha, Monica Ali, Salauddin Lavlu, Jasimuddin, Abu Taher, Pankaj Gupta, Khaled 'Bassbaba' Sumon, Muntassir Mamoon, Shafkat Chowdhury, Runa Islam, Zahir Raihan, Braja Sundar Mitra, Chittabrata Majumdar, Hiralal Sen, Hasan Khurshid Rumi, Qazi Anwar Hussain, Suborna Mustafa, Dohar Upazila, Tahmima Anam, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Dhamrai Upazila, Max Robertson, M. R. Akhtar Mukul, Rakib Hasan, Susobhan Sarkar, Nabendu Ghosh, Nawabganj Upazila, Dhaka, Keraniganj Upazila, Prasanna Kumar Roy, M. C. Chakrabarti, Cecil Kershaw, Faria Alam, Tofail Ahmed, Atulprasad Sen, Kaykobad, Humayra Abedin, James nion, Asit Sen, Nurul Islam, Protiva Bose, Adib Khan, Hannan Majid, Hubert Costa, Ali Imam, Tejkunipara, Nakhalpara Sapra Mosque, Partha Pratim Sarkar. Excerpt: Meghnad Saha FRS (Bengali: ) (6 October 1893 - 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars. Meghnad Saha was born in a small village named Seoratali, about 40 km from Dhaka (in present Bangladesh). The youngest of the five sons of Jagannath Saha and Bhubaneswari Debi, Meghnad belonged to a poor family and struggled to rise in life. His father was reluctant to allow him to undergo higher education; he wanted him to assist him in shopkeeping. With some persuasion from his eldest son Jayant and Meghnad's primary school teachers, he relented, and Meghnad went to the neighbouring village to live there and attend an English-medium school. Here he was lucky in t...
