This passage is all about an Indian scientist named Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian Physicist who is also called Satyendra. This paragraph can also be called Satyendra Nath Bose biography. When we count Indian scientists and their inventions or great scientists of India the name of Satyendra Nath Bose is the first to be counted because he has contributed greatly to Indian inventions. There is S N Bose Institute as his big achievement and S N Bose scholars program is also being run.
Satyendra Nath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose was a world-renowned Indian physicist, who made a landmark discovery which led to various other discoveries. Professor S N Bose specialised in theoretical physics and made some of the most fundamental conceptual contributions in the development of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Statistics. Bose was born on 1 January 1894 in Calcutta.
From the early years itself, it was proved that Bose was extremely intelligent and a genius boy. In his matriculation in 1909, he stood fifth in the order of merit. Also, he stood first in B.Sc. as well as in M.Sc. completing both in mixed mathematics. During his graduation years, he was inspired by a lot of eminent scientists and professors.
Bose took to teaching at the University of Dhaka and also carried research and study in the theory of relativity. During this time, he prepared the first English language book based on German and French translations of Albert Einstein’s original relativity papers. At the university, Bose established new departments, laboratories and libraries in which he could teach advanced courses: In 1924, he sent a paper to Einstein describing a statistical model without using the traditional approach.
Einstein, recognising the importance of the paper, translated it into German himself and published it. As a result of this recognition, Bose was able to work for two years in European laboratories, along with others like Marie Curie and Einstein himself. After coming back, Bose himself designed equipment for X-Ray laboratory and helped in setting up laboratories and libraries to make the department a centre of research in various fields of physics.
He made important contributions to the field of quantum physics that changed how particle physics has been studied ever since. This result derived by Bose laid the foundation of quantum statistics, as acknowledged by Einstein.
Bose’s interpretation is now called Bose-Einstein statistics. After meeting face-to-face with Bose, Einstein confirmed to him that he has actually led to an invention. The research related to the concepts: Bose-Einstein statistics and Bose-Einstein condensate, later became famous as ‘Boson’ or ‘God particle.’
In 1937, Rabindranath Tagore dedicated his only book on science, -visa-Parichay, to Satyendra Nath Bose. Bose was honoured with title Pacima Vibhushan by the Indian Government in 1954. In 1959, he was appointed as the National Professor, the highest honour in the country for a scholar, a position he held for 15 years.
In 1986, the SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences was established in Calcutta. According to a July 2012 New York Times article, Bose is described as the `Father of the God Particle’. Apart from physics, scientist’s interests wandered into other fields, including philosophy, literature and the Indian independence movement.
Several Nobel Prizes were awarded for research related to the concepts of the boson and the Bose-Einstein condensate. Unfortunately, Bose was never awarded a Nobel Prize, despite his work which clarified the concepts and opened the door to new ideas. When asked for a response, Bose said, “I have got all the recognition I deserve.” For all his life he was occupied with the study of and research in various fields as it gave him utmost contentment.
At the age of 80, Bose suffered a severe heart attack and breathed his last on the 4 February 1974. Even today, people claim that Bose’s finding was one of the tops to achievements of both centuries. Bose, a brilliant scholar throughout his lifetime, continues to inspire many even today, while his name lives on in various theories in the field of physics.
