Satyendranath Bose

Satyendranath Bose ( Bengali: সত্যেন্দ্রনাথ বসু, Satyendranath Basu; * January 1, 1894 in Calcutta, † February 4, 1974 ) was an Indian physicist, who made ​​important contributions to mathematical and statistical physics. In particular, it was his collaboration with Albert Einstein recognized for Gasförmigkeit of electromagnetic radiation ( ideal Bose gas ).

A short article on the quantum statistics of photons, which he wrote at the age of 27 years when he worked at the University of Dhaka, caught the attention of Albert Einstein. Einstein took the idea and applied it also to atoms. He said the existence of the so-called Bose -Einstein condensates advance. According to Bose, the Bose -Einstein statistics and the bosons are named ( by Paul Dirac ). On a trip through Europe in 1924, he worked with Marie Curie. He was also an employee of Albert Einstein. In the years 1926 to 1945 he was a professor at the University of Dhaka. 1944 Bose General President of the Indian Science Congress was.

Bose was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1958, and in 1959 appointed him the government of India for the National Professor. He was also honored by the President of India.