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Saha’s ionization formula was his major contribution. While thinking about some of the problems in astrophysics how he developed the ionization formula and applied it to explain some phenomena is explained here in details.
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S. Chatterjee, M. Chatterjee, Meghnad Saha (National Book Trust, New Delhi, 1984) p. 93
D. S. Kothari, Meghnad Saha: Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal society, 5, 217 (1960)
S. N. Sen (ed.) Professor Meghnad Saha: His life, work and philosophy (Meghnad Saha sixtieth birthday committee, Calcutta 1954) p. 26
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Naik, P.V. (2017). Saha’s Ionization Formula. In: Meghnad Saha. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62102-9_7
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