Google celebrates the 104th birth anniversary of Indian physicist and meteorologist Anna Mani
Tech-giant Google has paid special tributes to one of India’s first female scientists, Anna Mani, with a doodle on her 104th birth anniversary. She was a physicist and meteorologist from Kerala and was named the ‘Weather Woman of India’.
Anna Mani was born on August 23, 1918 in Kerala. Since her childhood, she was fond of books and remained an avid reader all her life. At 12 years of age, she had read almost every book at her local library.
Today’s #GoogleDoodle honours Anna Mani, the ‘Weather Woman of India’, whose inventions still continue to make our lives easier.
She gave us gadgets to measure weather, and laid the groundwork for renewable energy.
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forever grateful https://t.co/hM04n95T3W pic.twitter.com/u7P3TXLLKG— Google India (@GoogleIndia) August 23, 2022
She graduated with a Bachelor of Science with honors in physics and chemistry from Presidency College, Madras. Later for a year, she taught at Women’s Christian College (WCC), from where she completed her Intermediate Science course. She won a scholarship for post-graduate studies and studied spectroscopy under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Sir CV Raman specializing in diamonds and rubies.
After completing her Ph.D., Mani published five papers between 1942 and 1945. She later specialized in meteorological instrumentation at Imperial College, London.
In 1948, she returned to India and began working in the India Meteorological Department (IMD). During her tenure at the IMD, she designed and constructed many weather forecasting instruments that strengthened her roots at the IMD, and later, she became the head of the department.
Anna Mani passed away on August 16, 2001 in Thiruvananthapuram.
