Why Meghnad Saha was nominated five times yet never won the Nobel
Published on: Feb. 23, 2026, 2:40 p.m. | Source: India Today
Meghnad Saha was nominated for the Nobel Prize five times but never received it. Yet his ionisation equation, decoding how stars shine and what they are made of, became the foundation of modern astrophysics. Here is the story of the Indian physicist who transformed how we understand stars, and was left out of science’s biggest honour.
