You know, whenever I feel like giving up on my dreams, I take a look at all the inspiring women who have achieved the unachievable and it gives me a lot of courage. Well, if we are talking about inspiring women, then we have to mention Anna Mani, a pioneering Indian scientist, physicist, and meteorologist who changed the way our country gauges weather. Google is celebrating her 104th birth anniversary by dedicating a special google doodle to her. If you want to know more about this inspiring personality, then keep on reading.
One of India's first meteorologists, #AnnaMani, was born Aug. 23, 1918.
— Paul Bacon (@PaulBacon30) August 23, 2022
She began working for the Indian Meteorological Dept. in 1948.
She died Aug. 16, 2001, one week before her 83rd birthday. #GoogleDoodlehttps://t.co/yaVaavhqqF
Who Was Anna Mani?
Anna Modayil Mani was born on August 23, 1918, in a Syrian Christian family in Travancore. She was a physicist and a meteorologist. Her significant contributions in the field of meteorology made it possible for our country to make accurate weather predictions. Anna Mani was an avid reader from childhood, she wanted to pursue medicine but she changed her mind. Later, she decided to study physics, and enrolled in the honours programme at the Presidency College, Madras. Mani started her research career under the supervision of C.V. Raman at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Today is Indian Physicist Anna Mani's birth centenary. The meteorologist invented and produced over 100 gadgets that measured weather, solar radiation and more. This year @prathambooks published 'Anna's Extraordinary Experiments with the Weather' by @nandita_j and Priya Kuriyan. pic.twitter.com/IzOpJYAVNg
— StoryWeaver (@PBStoryWeaver) August 23, 2018
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Anna Mani returned to India in the year 1948 and joined the India Meteorological Department, Pune. She simplified and standardised the drawings of nearly 100 weather-related instruments for production and set up monitoring stations across the country to monitor solar radiations.
In 1960, Mani started her work on measuring atmospheric ozone and then later set up a meteorological observatory at the Thumba rocket launching facility. Her contributions and research to weather forecasting made it possible for India to make accurate weather forecasts. She retired as Deputy Director General of the Meteorological Department in the year 1976 and returned as a visiting professor to the Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru.
Anna Mani published two books – the Handbook of Solar Radiation Data for India and Solar Radiation over India that are considered to be standard reference texts for budding scientists. During the 1980s, she started a company that made precision instruments to measure solar radiation and wind speed and she also worked on projects that looked to harness the power of wind energy.
Anna Mani suffered a stroke in the year 1996. She passed away in August 2001, in Thiruvananthapuram.
Anna Mani, a pioneering woman scientist and ‘Weather woman of India’, is an inspiration for all.
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