Google Doodle celebrates 104th birthday of ‘Weather Woman Of India’ Anna Mani

India

oi-Prakash KL

New
Delhi,
Aug
23:
Google
on
Monday
is
honouring
India’s
renowned
physicist
and
meteorologist
Anna
Mani
on
the
occasion
of
her
104th
birth
anniversary
by
paying
a
heartfelt
tribute
to
her
via
a
creative
doodle.

The
search
engine
honoured
Anna
Mani,
who
was
known
as
‘Weather
Woman
of
India’,
through
a
colourful
and
whimsical
illustration
of
Anna
Mani
on
its
home
page.

Who
was
Anna
Mani?
Born
on
August
23
in
1918
in
Kerala
to
Syrian
Christian
family,
she
was
the
seventh
of
eight
children
in
her
family.
During
her
childhood,
she
was
a
voracious
reader.

She
wanted
to
pursue
dancing,
but
she
decided
in
favour
of
physics
because
she
liked
the
subject.
In
1939,
she
graduated
from
the
Pachaiyappas
College
in
Chennai
(then
Madras),
with
a
B.Sc
Honors
degree
in
physics
and
chemistry.
In
1940,
she
won
a
scholarship
for
research
in
the
Indian
Institute
of
Science,
Bangalore.
In
1945,
she
went
to
Imperial
College,
London
to
pursue
graduate
studies
in
Physics.
However,
she
ended
up
specialising
in
meteorological
instruments.

Google
doodle
celebrates
India’s
75th
Independence
Day
with
Kerala
artist’s
work

After
completing
Bachelor
of
Science
with
honours
in
physics
and
chemistry
from
Presidency
College,
Madras,
Anna
Mani
taught
at
WCC
for
a
year
and
won
a
scholarship
for
post-graduate
studies
at
the
Indian
Institute
of
Science,
Bangalore.

She
then,
under
the
guidance
of
Nobel
Laureate
Sir
CV
Raman,
studied
spectroscopy,
specializing
in
diamonds
and
rubies.
Between
1942
and
1945,
Anna
Mani
published
five
papers,
completed
her
Ph.D.
dissertation,
and
started
a
graduate
program
at
Imperial
College,
London.

In
1948
she
returned
to
India
and
started
working
for
the
India
Meteorological
Department
(IMD),
where
she
helped
the
country
design
and
manufacture
its
own
weather
instruments.
Mani
was
also
an
early
advocate
of
alternative
energy
sources.
Throughout
the
1950s,
she
established
a
network
of
solar
radiation
monitoring
stations
and
published
several
papers
on
sustainable
energy
measurement.
In
1987,
she
won
the
INSA
K.
R.
Ramanathan
Medal
for
her
remarkable
contributions
to
science.
After
her
retirement,
she
was
appointed
as
a
Trustee
of
the
Raman
Research
Institute
in
Bangalore.

“Happy
104th
birthday,
Anna
Mani!
Your
life’s
work
inspired
brighter
days
for
this
world,”
Google
said.
After
seeing
the
special
doodle,
many
Indians
lauded
Google
for
the
honour.
“Google
made
this
doodle
for
the
world.
We
are
proud
of
our
Indian
physicist
ANNA
MANI,”
a
netizen
wrote
on
Twitter.

Google
made
this
doodle
for
the
world.
We
are
proud
to
our
indian
physicist
ANNA
MANI
!#google#doodle#indianwoman#indiansciencest#Annamani#Happybirthdayannamani

pic.twitter.com/X4r11d1w66

— Manisha Jain Manisha Jain (@22manishaJ)

August
23,
2022

“Anna
Mani
at
Google.
Super
proud,”
another
one
tweeted.