Meet Anna Mani, a pioneer Indian physicist and meteorologist! Originally wanting to study medicine, Anna Mani decided instead to focus on physics. In 1939, she graduated from the Presidency College in Madras, with a B.Sc Honors degree in physics and chemistry. Despite her pioneering work, she was never granted a PhD and today her completed PhD dissertation remains in the library of Raman Research Institute, nevertheless she persevered. With a government scholarship for an internship in England, Anna Mani moved to Britain in 1945 to pursue physics, but she ended up studying meteorological instruments at Imperial College London as it was the only internship available. After returning to India in 1948, she joined the Meteorological department in Pune eventually working her way to becoming the Deputy Director General of the Indian Meteorological Department. Here she made significant contributions in the field of solar radiation, ozone and wind energy instrumentation. Here, she started her...