Anna Mani
Anna Mani (23 August 1918 16 August 2001) was anIndian physicist
and meteorologist.[1] She was the DeputyDirector General of the
Indian Meteorological Depart-ment. She made signicant contributions
in the eld ofmeteorological instrumentation. She conducted
researchand published numerous papers on solar radiation, ozoneand
wind energy measurements.[2]
1 Early lifeAnna Mani was born in Peerumedu, Travancore.[3]
Herfather was a civil engineer. She was the seventh of
eightchildren in her family. During her childhood, she was
avoracious reader. She was impressed by the activities ofGandhi
during Vaikom satyagraha. Inspired by the na-tionalist movement,
she took to wearing only Khd gar-ments. She wanted to
pursuemedicine, but she decided infavour of physics because she
liked the subject. In 1939,she graduated from the Presidency
College in Madras,with a B.Sc Honors degree in physics and
chemistry.[3]
2 CareerAfter graduating from the Presidency college, she
workedunder Prof. C V Raman, researching the optical proper-ties of
ruby and diamond.[2] She authored ve researchpapers, but she was
not granted a PhD because she didnot have a masters degree in
physics. Then she moved toBritain to study pursue physics, but she
ended up study-ing meteorological instruments at Imperial College
Lon-don.[3] After returning to India in 1948, she joined
theMeteorological department in Pune. She published nu-merous
research papers on meteorological instrumenta-tion. She retired as
the deputy director general of the In-dian Meteorological
department in 1976. She authoredtwo books, The Handbook for Solar
Radiation data forIndia in 1980 and Solar Radiation over India in
1981.[2]She won the K.R. Ramanathan Medal in 1987.[3]
In 1994 she suered from a stroke, and died on 16 August2001 in
Thiruvananthapuram.[1]
3 References[1] Sur, Abha (14 October 2001). The Life and Times
of a
Pioneer. The Hindu. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
[2] Sur, Abha (2007). Lilavatis daughters: The women scien-tists
of India. Indian Academy of Science. pp. 2325.
[3] Gupta, Aravind. Anna Mani. Platinum Jubilee Publish-ing of
INSA. Indian National science academy. Retrieved7 October 2012.
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