Google honours Indian Physicist and Meteorologist Anna Mani through its Doodle

Google remembers Indian Physicist and meteorologist Anna Mani by honouring her through a doodle. On the occasion of the 104th birth anniversary of Anna Mani, the search engine Google paid tribute to her via Google's doodle.

Known as the 'Weather Woman of India', Anna Mani was born on August 23 in 1918 in Kerala. Her life's work as a physicist and meteorologist made it possible for Indian agencies to accurately predict the weather conditions of the country in the present day.

Google honoured Anna Mani through a colourful digital artwork on its home page. After seeing the special doodle, many Indians lauded Google for the honour.

After completing a 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.

Anna Mani published five papers, completed her PhD dissertation, and started a graduate program at Imperial College, London, all this in a time span of 3 years starting in the year 1942. 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. Later, she retired as a Deputy Director General of the Indian Meteorological Department.

Moreover, 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.