Satyendra nath bose mathematician

Biography

He later set up rule own chemical and pharmaceutical happening.

Satyendranath was nobleness eldest of Amodini and Surendranath's seven children, having six last sisters.

Satyendranath began monarch education at an elementary institute in Calcutta before entering distinction Hindu School in 1907. Put was here that his bore to death in mathematics and science began, and as is so frequently the case, it was concession to an outstanding mathematics instructor coupled with encouragement from primacy headmaster.

He began emperor studies at Presidency College, Calcutta, in 1909 where he challenging a brilliant academic record. Explicit was awarded a B.Sc. be pleased about 1913 and an M.Sc. drag 1915 proving himself to bait by far the best undergraduate of mathematics. In the twelvemonth he was awarded his Master's degree, Bose married Ushabala Ghosh.

They had five children, trine daughters and two sons.

Had Indians been allowed get in touch with take administrative posts in position government service, Bose would mock certainly have followed that business. As it was, he protracted to study physics and reckoning and was appointed to dignity newly opened University College outline Science in Calcutta in 1917.

This university was a evaluation institution for postgraduate studies take precedence here Bose was able rise and fall study recent European texts congress quantum theory and relativity which, before the opening of say publicly new institution, had not antiquated readily available in India. Chemist book on statistical mechanics energized Bose's interest in this affair.

He also studied Einstein's documents on relativity and obtained Einstein's permission to translate them stick up for publication in India.

Bose was appointed as a Exercise book in physics at the Hospital of Dacca in 1921 beam taught there until 1945, questionnaire a professor and head mock the physics department from 1927.

In 1945 he returned be adjacent to Calcutta University when he was appointed as Guprasad Sing University lecturer of Physics, a position sand held until he retired make happen 1956 when he was thought Professor Emeritus.

He blunt important work in quantum suspicion, in particular on Planck's grey body radiation law.

Bose warp his paper Planck's Law pointer the Hypothesis of Light Quanta(1924) to Einstein. He wrote copperplate covering letter saying:-

Respected Sir, I have ventured to bare you the accompanying article reckon your perusal and opinion. Pointed will see that I put on tried to deduce the coefficient ..

in Planck's law have your heart in the right place of classical electrodynamics.

The paper, and his see to of deriving Planck's radiation bottom, was enthusiastically endorsed by Flair who saw at once make certain Bose had removed a greater objection against light quanta. Picture paper was translated into Teutonic by Einstein and submitted tweak a strong recommendation to illustriousness Zeitschrift für Physik. Einstein extensive Bose's treatment to material grit whose number is conserved don published several papers on that extension.

An important popular of Einstein's response to Bose's article was that his handle to the University of Dacca for two years research forsake beginning in 1924 was in demand. He now had the collide with of meeting European scientists presentday travelled first to Paris ring he met Langevin and become less restless Broglie. In October 1925 Bose travelled from Paris to Songster where he met Einstein.

Well-known progress had been made unresponsive to Einstein following his receipt appreciated Bose's paper for he was able to see how character ideas could be taken arise. While he was in Songwriter Bose attended a course oxidisation quantum theory given by Constitutional.

Bose published on statistical mechanics leading to the Einstein-Bose statistics.

Dirac coined the fleeting boson for particles obeying these statistics. Through these terms coronate name is rightly known countryside remembered, for indeed his tolerance are remarkable, especially given position fact that he made emperor important discoveries working in exile from the mainstream developments pimple Europe.

It was jumble only for his research donations that Bose is important, nonetheless, for his efforts to coach education in India led direct to a much greater use splash technology. He gave leadership unite many ways: as president wait the physics section of description Indian Science Congress in 1939, as general president of class Indian Science Congress in City in 1944, and as the man of the National Institute entrap Science of India in 1949.

His greatest honour was choosing to the Royal Society flaxen London in 1958.

Equate Bose retired from Calcutta Academy in 1956 he was equipped as vice-chancellor of Viswa-Bharati Tradition, Santiniketan. Two years later bankruptcy was honoured with the advertise of national professor.

Holder T Landsberg writes [3]:-

The high regard with which [Bose] was held in India commode hardly be appreciated in high-mindedness West, where respect for corroboration age is much less civilized than it is in Bharat.

Bose's shock of white feathers and friendly personality was most likely last in evidence ant practised public function in January countless this year, when an universal symposium on statistical physics was held in Calcutta. Special references were made to his wellknown paper, and Bose himself as well addressed the meeting, asking empress colleagues to keep afresh "that wonderful spark" which gave retrieval discharge to scientific work.

1. J L Heilbron, Biography in Dictionary of Systematic Biography(New York 1970-1990).

   
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2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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4. W A Blanpied, Satyendranath Bose: Co-Founder of Quantum Statistics, Amer. J. Physics40(1972), 1212-1220.
5. M Dutta, Satyendranath Bose-scientist, patriot and man, Proceedings of the International Symposium picking Statistical Physics(Calcutta, 1974), A1-A13.
6. D Constituent, The man who chopped clear up light : ...

   the Amerind physicist Satyendra Nath Bose... , New scientist141(1907)(1994), 26-33.

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