Who is Satyendra Nath Bose?

Satyendra Nath Bose was an eminent physicist after whom ‘Bosons’, one of the two classes of particles in quantum mechanics, was named.  He served as a lecturer in the physics department of the University of Calcutta from 1916 to 1921. Along with a former classmate, the future astrophysicist Meghnad Saha, he published the English translations of Albert Einstein’s original papers on special and general relativity in 1919. He had been working along with Saha on quantum physics and relativity theory for some years now. In 1924, he wrote a paper on deriving Planck’s quantum radiation law that offered a solution that had never been thought of before. Continuing his work in research, Bose designed the equipment for an X-ray crystallography laboratory. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Science at Dhaka University until 1945. At the time of partition, he returned to Calcutta where he held the Khaira Chair. He taught at the University of Calcutta till 1956 where he encouraged the students to design their own equipment Even after his retirement he continued with his research in nuclear physics. Along with physics, he also researched on organic chemistry, geology, engineering and other sciences.

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