Bose

Satyendranath Bose

Born: 1 Jan 1894 in Calcutta, India
Died: 4 Feb 1974 in Calcutta, India

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Bose studied at the University of Calcutta, then taught there in 1916, taught at the University of Dacca (1921-45), then returned to Calcutta (1945-56). He did important work in quantum theory, in particular on Planck's black body radiation law.

Bose's work Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quanta (1924) was enthusiastically endorsed by Einstein. Bose also published on statistical mechanics leading to the Einstein-Bose statistics. Dirac coined the term boson for particles obeying these statistics.

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References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. W A Blanpied, Satyendranath Bose: Co-Founder of Quantum Statistics, Amer. J. Physics 40 (1972), 1212-1220.
  4. D Home, The man who chopped up light : ... the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose... , New scientist 141 (1907) (1994), 26-33. 
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