Google
Doodle
pays tribute to
Indian
physicist
and
meteorologist
Anna Mani
The Better India
Image Credit :-
Anna Mani
(1918-2001)
Anna
Mani was an Indian
physicist
and
meteorologist,
She
retired
as the Deputy Director
Gen
era
l
of the Indian Meteorological
Department
Google has depicted a
Doodle dedicated
to Mani, to celebrating her
104th birth anniversary.
Anna
Modayil Mani was born in
1918
in
Peermade
, Kerala
She obtained her
B.Sc. (Hon.)
in 1939 from the
Madras Presidency College.
A voracious reader
since childhood
, Mani initially wanted to pursue
dancing
indianeagle
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But
eventually
decided in favor of
physics
since she liked the
subject
.
She began her
scientific career
with
C.V. Raman
at the
Indian Institute of Science
, Bengaluru, where she studied the
fluorescence
In 1945, she went to the
Imperial College, London
, and later to the British
Meteorologica
l Office, studying the evolution of
weather instruments.
imperial.ac.uk
Image Credit :-
She
visited
several field observatories and manufacturers of
meteorologica
l instruments in
England
and
Scotland
.
later
joined the
India
Meteorological Department
(IMD)
.
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