Anna Mani, One Of India's 1St Female Scientists, Celebrated In Google Doodle
Date
8/23/2022 5:10:44 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
google has paid special tributes to one of India's first female
scientists , Anna Mani, with a doodle on her 104th birth
anniversary. Anna Modayil Mani - born in 1918 - was a physicist and
meteorologist from Kerala. She also served as former deputy
director general of the Indian Meteorological Department. Anna's
immense interest in reading books made up her mind to go on with
her passion rather than getting stuck in a mundane life.
Younger Anna was interested in physics and so, she did B.Sc
honors in physics and chemistry from Chennai. After her graduation,
she worked with the Nobel laureate, Professor C.V Raman, and
researched on the optical properties of ruby and diamond.
Gradually, meteorology captivated her, and that's when in 1945
she went to Imperial College, London where Anna ended up
specialising in meteorological instruments. Before this, she also
went to the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru for research
in 1940.
Anna was always inspired by the nationalist movement and so by
the activities of Mahatma Gandhi. Inspiration was to a level that
she later was only wearing khadi clothes. Anna's life story was
inspiring even before she fully entered her higher education.
As an eight-year-old, she read almost all Malayalam books in the
public library and by the age of 12, she read all the English
books. Her thoughts and the way she wanted to move forward in her
career were greatly influenced by her book-reading routine.
At the Thumba rocket launching facility, Anna set up a
meteorological observatory and an instrumentation tower and she was
also a member of the International Ozone Association. For her
contributions to Meteorology, the World Meteorological Organization
remembered her on her 100th birth anniversary by publishing her
life in a personal interview.
Thanks to Google-Doodle for remembering the birth anniversary of
Anna Mani and for her contributions to Indian Meteorology. It will
surely help younger generation students to get inspiration to
pursue research in science and technology.
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