Satyendra Nath Bose

Satyendra Nath Bose

1 January 1894
4 February 1974
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Qualities of Electromagnetic Radiation.

Satyendra Nath Bose was an eminent physicist after whom ‘Bosons’, one of the two classes of particles in quantum mechanics, was named. He was a self-taught scholar who rose to prominence during the 1920s for his work on quantum mechanics and went on to work with the renowned German physicist, Albert Einstein.

The class of particles that obey Bose–Einstein statistics, bosons, was named after Bose by Paul Dirac.A self-taught scholar and a polymath, 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 sovereign India.

Mathematician and physicist, best known for his collaboration with Albert Einstein in formulating a theory related to the gaslike qualities of electromagnetic radiation.