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Satyendranath Bose
Times obituary
Professor Satyendranath Bose, FRS, who died yesterday in Calcutta, was an internationally known physicist whose contributions to the theory of relativity led to his being popularly known as "Einstein Bose" in his homeland. He was 80.
In 1924, after he was attached to Dacca University, his paper on "Planck's Law and the Light Quantum Hypothesis" was published in Europe in an annotated German translation by Einstein. His best-known work is associated with that period.
At the time, Einstein wrote to his Indian colleague congratulating him on his research, and the two men were in communication
again many years later. But they never met, though Bose visited Europe several times
Born in 1894, Bose had a brilliant academic record as a student and joined Calcutta University as a lecturer in physics in 1916. In 1921, he went to Dacca University as a reader in the department of physics and in 1927 became head of the department and a professor. He held the post until 1945, when he returned to Calcutta University as Guprasad Singh Professor of Physics. In 1958, he became Emeritus Professor of Physics and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. He had visited Britain a few years earlier.
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Prof. P. T. Landsberg writes:
May I add a brief note to your obituary on Professor Satyendranath Bose? Bose's name remains associated with "bosons," particles obeying Bose-Einstein statistics. They were first analyzed by Bose in connection with light quanta or photons (which are now regarded as a special kind of boson) in the 1924 paper to which the obituary referred
The high regard with which he was held in India can hardly be appreciated in the West, where respect for old age is much less developed than it is in India. Bose's shock of white hair and friendly personality was probably last in evidence at a public function in January of this year, when an international symposium on statistical physics was held in Calcutta. Special references were made to his famous paper, and Bose himself also addressed the meeting, asking his colleagues to keep a fresh "that wonderful spark" which gave fulfillment to scientific work. The Central Minister of Science and Technology was present and said that a national committee had been set up with Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister, as patron to draw up a program to honor S. N. Bose. There will be widespread sorrow at the passing of a great man who robbed India of one of her most revered sons
Professor Satyendranath Bose, FRS, who died yesterday in Calcutta, was an internationally known physicist whose contributions to the theory of relativity led to his being popularly known as "Einstein Bose" in his homeland. He was 80.
In 1924, after he was attached to Dacca University, his paper on "Planck's Law and the Light Quantum Hypothesis" was published in Europe in an annotated German translation by Einstein. His best-known work is associated with that period.
At the time, Einstein wrote to his Indian colleague congratulating him on his research, and the two men were in communication
again many years later. But they never met, though Bose visited Europe several times
Born in 1894, Bose had a brilliant academic record as a student and joined Calcutta University as a lecturer in physics in 1916. In 1921, he went to Dacca University as a reader in the department of physics and in 1927 became head of the department and a professor. He held the post until 1945, when he returned to Calcutta University as Guprasad Singh Professor of Physics. In 1958, he became Emeritus Professor of Physics and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. He had visited Britain a few years earlier.
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Prof. P. T. Landsberg writes:
May I add a brief note to your obituary on Professor Satyendranath Bose? Bose's name remains associated with "bosons," particles obeying Bose-Einstein statistics. They were first analyzed by Bose in connection with light quanta or photons (which are now regarded as a special kind of boson) in the 1924 paper to which the obituary referred
The high regard with which he was held in India can hardly be appreciated in the West, where respect for old age is much less developed than it is in India. Bose's shock of white hair and friendly personality was probably last in evidence at a public function in January of this year, when an international symposium on statistical physics was held in Calcutta. Special references were made to his famous paper, and Bose himself also addressed the meeting, asking his colleagues to keep a fresh "that wonderful spark" which gave fulfillment to scientific work. The Central Minister of Science and Technology was present and said that a national committee had been set up with Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister, as patron to draw up a program to honor S. N. Bose. There will be widespread sorrow at the passing of a great man who robbed India of one of her most revered sons
