SATYENDRA NATH BOSE

About:

• Satyendra Nath Bose (1894 – 1974) was an Indian mathematician and physicist specialising in theoretical physics.
• He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, in developing the foundation for Bose statistics and the theory of the Bose condensate.
• The class of particles that obey Bose statistics, bosons, was named after Bose by Paul Dirac.
• 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.