Satyendranath Bose was a brilliant theoretical physicist born this week in 1894 in West Bengal (now India).
In 1924, while on faculty at the University of Dacca, he wrote a short paper to Albert Einstein about indistinguishable particles related to quantum theory.
Einstein immediately recognized Bose’ genius, translated the work into German & made sure it was published. Bose ideas led to Bose-Einstein statistics which continue to be studied in quantum mechanics. #science #history #HistoryRemix
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Kevin Schwarz
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Ashwin Baindur
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •"Although seven Nobel Prizes were awarded for research related to S N Bose's concepts of the boson, Bose–Einstein statistics and Bose–Einstein condensate, Bose himself was not awarded a Nobel Prize."
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Indian physicist and polymath (1894–1974)
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