Google pays tribute to Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose with a special doodle
Google Doodle is celebrating the immense contribution of Indian physicist and mathematician Satyendra Nath Bose to quantum mechanics.
On this day in 1924, mathematician Satyendra Nath Bose sent his quantum formulations to Albert Einstein who immediately recognized it as a significant discovery in quantum mechanics.
It is said that Bose had taken Albert Einstein as his Mentor.
Born In 1894 in Kolkata, Bose had a wide range of interests in varied fields including physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature, and music.
Knock, knock? 🚪
Who’s there? 🧐
Bose.
Bose kaun?
Bosons…
are named after him. His work with Einstein led to a revolutionary theory in quantum statistics. Some know him as the father of the God particle, others as #SNBose 🙌🏼
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His father was an accountant, he used to write an arithmetic problem for him to solve before leaving for work, which ignited Bose’s interest in mathematics.
At age 15, Bose began pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree at Calcutta’s Presidency College and earned a Master’s in Applied Mathematics soon after at the University of Calcutta.
He was a fellow of the Royal Society and in 1954 he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, by the Government of India. He was also an adviser to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and later became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
By the end of 1917, Bose began giving lectures on physics. While teaching postgraduate students Planck’s radiation formula, he questioned the way particles were counted and began experimenting with his own theories.
Any particle that conforms with Bose’s statistics today is known as a boson. Many scientific inventions have come from his work which includes the discovery of the particle accelerator and the God particle.
