Satyendra Nath Bose

Author: Santimay Chatterjee
Enakshi Chatterjee/
Publisher: National Book Trust
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 107
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8123704925

Description

Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974) was associated primarily with what came to be known as the Bose-Einstein statistics and Bosons.

He was a versatile genius, and, in addition to physics and mathematics, his interests embraced such diverse fields as chemistry, mineralogy, social science, philosophy and languages. By those who had the privilege of being his students, he is remembered not only as a supreme teacher but also as a most valuable friend.

Contents

Preface

1. The Background
2. The Formative Year (1894-1914)
3. Early Career (1915-1920)
4. The Young Intellectuals
5. First visit to Europe (1921-1926)
6. Stay at Dacca (1927-1945)
7. Bose at Calcutta (1945-1956)
8. At Santiniketan (1956-1958)
9. The Unconventional Scientist
10. Science through the Mother Tongue
11. The Last years (1959-1974)
12. The Complete Man
References
Appendix

I. List of published papers by S.N. Bose
II. The Classical Determinism and the Quantum theory
Index to Names