World famous Indian scientist, Satyendra Nath Bose is known for working with Albert Einstein on the Bose-Einstein Condensate and his work on the Boson particle

Here are some facts about the Father of God Particle, Satyendra Nath Bose.

Personal life:

He was born on January 1, 1894, in Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, India

He was the eldest of the seven children and the only male kid in the family

He married Usha Devi at the age of 20

He left the world following his passion on February 4, 1974

Academic life and career

He entered into Hindu School, one of India’s oldest schools

He attended Presidency College (along with renowned scientists Jagadish Chandra Bose and Prafulla Chandra Ray) and received B.Sc. in mixed Mathematics

He got his M.Sc in the same subject from University of Calcutta

He became a research scholar at the same university in 1916 and began his study on the theory of relativity

He also served as the lecturer in the Physics department while studying

He prepared many papers on theoretical physics and pure mathematics along with Saha

The credit to prepare the first-ever English language book based on German and French translations of Albert Einstien’s original special and general relativity papers goes to Saha and Bose

In 1921, Bose joined the physics department at the University of Dhaka

It was during this time that he visited Europe

After spending 25 years at the Dhaka University, he came back to Calcutta in 1945 and continued to research and teach until his death in 1974 on February 4.

Contribution of Satyendra Nath Bose to the world

When Bose was in Dhaka University, he wrote a paper in 1924, in which he derived Plank’s quantum radiation law without referencing classical physics. He was able to do so by counting states with identical properties. He sent this paper to Albert Einstein in Germany who immediately recognized its importance, translated it into German and submitted it on Bose’s behalf to the Zeitschrift für Physik, the prestigious scientific journal.

Bose went to Europe to work for two years at Xray and crystallography laboratories where he worked alongside the big names of science including Albert Einstein and Marie Curie.

Einstein adopted the idea of Bose and applied it to the atoms which gave birth to Bose-Einstein Condensate, a dense collection of particles with integer spin known as Bosons (named after Bose).

Satyendra Nath Bose’s work on particle statistics clarified the behaviour of photons and opened a door to new ideas on statistics of Microsystems that obey the rules of quantum theory. According to physicist Jayant Narlikar, Bose’s finding was one of the top achievements of 20th century Indian science.

According to a July 2012 New York Times article in which Bose is described as the "Father of the 'God Particle,'" the scientist's interests wandered into other fields, including philosophy, literature and the Indian independence movement.

Recognitions and Honours

Although a number of Nobel Prizes have been awarded for research related to the concepts of the Bosons and the Bose-Einstein Condensate but Bose was never awarded a Nobel Prize.

I have got all the recognition I deserve - Bose responded when asked about the Nobel Prize

The India Government awarded Bose with Padma Vibhushan in 1954, the second highest civilian award in the country.

In 1959, he was appointed as the National Professor- the highest honour for a scholar. Apart from that, he became:

Fellow of the Royal Society,

adviser to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,

President of the Indian Physical Society and the National Institute of Science,

general president of the Indian Science Congress,

President of the Indian Statistical Institute

12 years after Bose’s death, the Indian Parliament established the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Salt Lake, Calcutta.

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