Google Doodle Honours Satyendra Nath Bose, Recalls His Contributions

S N Bose

Google is today celebrating the Indian physicist and mathematician Satyendra Nath Bose and recalling his contributions in the field in Science and Mathematics, specially to the Bose-Einstein Condensate through a doodle.

It was on this day in 1924, Satyendra Nath Bose had sent his quantum formulations to Albert Einstein who recognised it immediately as a significant feat in the field of quantum mechanics.

S N Bose's Work

Satyendra Nath Bose is well known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s in developing the foundation for Bose statistics & the theory of the Bose condensate, which he later sent it to Albert Einstein

Born in 1894, S N Bose’s rose to fame through academics. His interest in Mathematics began at a very early age, when his Father Surendranath Bose, who worked as an accountant gave him at arithmetic problem to solve before heading to work every day.

Bose received his Bachelor of Science in mixed mathematics from Calcutta’s Presidency College in 1913 at the age of 15, & earned a M.Sc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Calcutta in 1915, thus topping both the degrees & solidifying his position in academia.

In 1916 S N Bose joined as a research scholar at the Calcutta University & started research in theory of relativity. By the end of 1917, Bose was giving lectures on Physics to PG students where he questioned the Planck’s radiation formula

Bose documented his findings based on his own experiments, which he named it as Planck’s Law and Hypothesis of Light Quanta & sent it to The Philosophical Magazine, a prominent science journal, which the latter rejected which promoted him to mail his work to Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein recognised significance of Bose findings & applied it across diverse phenomena making it one of the most important works in the field of quantum theory which got Bose a global recognition.

Padma Vibhushan

Bose was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan in 1954 by the Indian government for his outstanding contribution to Physics and was appointed as National Professor.

S N Bose, a Polymath

Satyendra Nath Bose, a true Polymath, severed as the President of several prestigious scientific institutions like the National Institute of Science, Indian Science Congress, Indian Physical Society, and Indian Statistical Institute

Bose became a Fellow of the Royal Society and served as an advisor to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

As tribute to Bose’s contributions and legacy, any particle in conformity with his statistics is known as a boson. Several breakthroughs have been achieved from Bose work’s which includes the particle accelerator and God Particle.

Satyendra Nath Bose revolutionised the world of physics and quantum mechanics, which today is honoured by Google with a Doodle.