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Weather Woman of India-Anna Mani Life Introduction

Anna Mani was the student of CV Raman and also an Indian physicist and meteorologist.

Anna Mani, weather woman of India

Life Introduction of Anna Mani

Real NameAnna Modayil Mani
Popular NameAnna Mani
Date of Birth23 August 1918
Place of BirthPeermade, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationIndian Physicist
Date of Death16 August 2001
Place of DeathThiruvananthapuram, India

Who was Anna Mani?

Anna Mani was the first meteorologist of India. She was the student of CV Raman and also worked as a visiting professor at the Raman Research Institute. She is one of the greatest physicist that India ever had.

Early life of Anna Mani

Anna Modayil Mani was born in Kerala to a Syrian Christian family. She had 7 siblings and was the seventh of the eighth child of her parents. Her father was a Civil Engineer by profession.

Anna Mani was in love with books and preferred to read all kind of books written in Malayalam or English. She got influenced a lot by books and this habit of her inculcated the sense of social justice in her since very beginning.

Other than books she loved dancing also. Her love of science and physics made her take admission in Pachaiyappas College in Chennai. She did her B.Sc Honors in Physics and Chemistry from this college. She even won a scholarship for her research work in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

For higher education she even went to Imperial College, London where she initially was to study physics but later ended up by studying and specialising in meteorological instrument.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q1: Google Doodle on Anna Mani
Ans: Google Doodle celebrated the 104th anniversary of Anna Mani on 23 August 2023

Q2: Why Anna Mani was famous?
Ans: Anna Mani was a great physicist and contributed a lot in the field of providing accurate weather predictions.

Q3: What kind of garments Anna Mani preferred?
Ans: Inflenced by the Vaikom Satyagraha by Gandhi ji, Anna Mani preferred wearing Khadi garments

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