Heard of Satyendra Nath Bose Ji ? . . . . . Today January - TopicsExpress



          

Heard of Satyendra Nath Bose Ji ? . . . . . Today January 1st 2015 happens to be his 121st birth anniversary ! Satyendra Nath Bose(1st January 1894 – 4th February 1974) was an Indian physicist specialising in mathematical physics. He was born in Calcutta. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was awarded Indias second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan in 1954 by the Government of India. The class of particles that obey Bose–Einstein statistics, bosons, was named after him by Paul Dirac. A self-taught scholar and a polyglot, he had a wide range of interests in varied fields including physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature and music. He served on many research and development committees in independent India.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:25:36 +0000

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