Google Doodle: Who is Anna Mani and what is she famous for?

 


On the 104th birthday of Indian meteorologist Anna Mani, the search engine Google has made a special doodle today. Anna Mani has contributed a lot to the Indian Meteorological Department. He has played an important role in the design of weather observation instruments. If it is possible to forecast the weather today, then it is only because of Anna Mani. Which plays an important role in measuring and forecasting the weather aspects of India.

Great love for studies

Let us tell you that the great Indian meteorologist Anna Mani was born on 23 August 1918 in Peerumedu, Kerala state, India. She is also known as 'The Weather Lady of India'. Due to the efforts of Anna Mani, weather forecast in India has become possible. Today Google has saluted Anna Mani by making a special doodle. Born in a Christian family, Anna Mani had a great love for studies. Her passion for reading books was such that by the age of 12, he had read almost every book in his public library. Father was a civil engineer and owner of large cardamom plantations.

Weather lady of India
Anna Mani, a student of Nobel laureate Professor CV Raman, graduated in Physics and Chemistry from Presidency College, Chennai then Madras in 1939 and received a scholarship for research at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1940. After this, Anna Mani went to Imperial College London in 1945 for further studies. From where she returned as an expert in weather forecasting equipment.

When Anna Mani returned to India in 1948, he started a job in the Meteorological Department and changed the way of weather forecasting in the country. By 1953, Anna Mani had become such a force that she reached the boss's chair in this area full of men. He has also authored several research papers related to meteorological instruments. While working in the Meteorological Department, Anna Mani was made the Deputy Director General of the department in 1969. Not only this, but he also set up a workshop in Bangalore. It was from this workshop that Anna Mani used to measure wind speed and solar energy. She was known as the weather lady of India.

Influenced by Gandhian ideology

She was greatly influenced by Gandhian ideology. My whole life walked on the values ​​of Gandhiji. She mostly wore Khadi clothes. In 1987, he was awarded the INSA KR Ramanathan Medal. Anna Mani lived in Thiruvananthapuram in her last moments. Mani did not let anyone in his life except science. He is never married. She was away from public life after the stroke in 1996. He breathed his last on 16 August 2001 in Thiruvananthapuram.


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