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Satyendra Nath Bose
Also known as S. N. Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974), whose 1924 paper 'Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese', mailed to Einstein and translated by him into German for Zeitschrift für Physik, derived Planck's radiation law from a new statistics of indistinguishable particles. The derivation founded Bose-Einstein statistics, named a whole class of fundamental particles (bosons, Dirac's coinage), and underwrote the subsequent prediction of Bose-Einstein condensation (observed 1995). Professor at Dhaka and later Calcutta; declined the Nobel repeatedly and was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 1954.
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- British Colonial Age, Republic and Living Practice
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- Historical linkIIT Kharagpur
Satyendra Nath Bose was interned by the British in the Hijli Detention Camp (later the site of IIT Kharagpur) during the independence movement.
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