Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in basic sciences under the Department of Science & Technology, Government
Office c. 1907
Mahendra Sarobar, IACS
Prof. Meghnad Saha, first director of IACS
Independence Day celebration at IACS (15 August 2019)
Meghnad Saha was an Indian astrophysicist and politician who helped devise the theory of thermal ionisation. His Saha ionisation equation allowed astronomers to accurately relate the spectral classes
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
…Prof. Rai Bahadur Sir Upendranath Brahmachari FNI, FASB (1942-1946) Prof. Meghnad Saha FNI, FASB, FRS (1946-1951) Prof. Sir Jnan Chandra Ghosh FNI (1951-1954…
Dr Meghnad Saha
Meghnad Saha c. 1934
Saha (seated on left) with other scientists at Calcutta University