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| SN Bose |
Full Name: Satyendra Nath Bose.
Scientist
SN Bose was born on 1 January 1894 at Kolkata, India. He was a physicist from Bengal specializing in theoretical physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920th, providing the foundation for Bose-Einestein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate. A fellow of the Royal Society, he was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan in 1954 by the Government of India.
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. He passed his entrance examination in 1909 from the Hindu College and stood fifth in order of merit. He next joined the intermediate science course at the Presidency College, Calcutta.
