GEORGE COLLEGE

(DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION)

Affiliated to : WBUTTEPA
Recognised by NCTE
B. Ed semester 1, session: 2021-2023

COURSE CODE : 1.1.5

COURSE NAME : Understanding Discipline and Subjects.
GUIDED BY: Sudipta Chatterjee
SUBMITTED BY: Anudipta Sen
ROLL NO.: 66
Satyendra Nath
Bose and his
contribution in
science.
*

Satyendra Nath Bose was an Indian mathematician and

physicist specializing in theoretical physics. He is best known
for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920 s,
collaborating with Albert Einstein

He was born into a middle class family on 1st January, 1894 in

British India’s capital city, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency

He was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the

Padma Vibhushan, in 1954 by the Government of India
 Academic life and career

After spending
25, he came
In 1921, Bose back to
joined the Calcutta in
Masters from physics
department at 1945 and
Calcutta university
and research scholar the University continued to
Graduation research and
from at the same of Dhaka
He complete
university in 1916 teach until his
Presidency and began his study
schooling death.
College in on the theory of
from Hindu mathematics relativity
School
 Contribution of Satyendra Nath
Bose to the world
• Bose’s great scientific discovery came about because of his dedication to teaching.

• He derived Plank’s quantum radiation law without referencing classical physics. He was able to do
so by counting states with identical properties. His paper was published in prestigious scientific
journal with the influence of Albert Einstein in Germany

• Bose went to Europe to work for two years at X-ray and crystallography laboratories where he
worked alongside the big names of science including Albert Einstein and Marie Curie.

• Einstein adopted the idea of Bose and applied it to the atoms which gave birth to Bose-Einstein
Condensate, a dense collection of particles with integer spin known as Bosons (named after Bose).

• Satyendra Nath Bose’s work on particle statistics clarified the behavior of photons and opened a
door to new ideas on statistics of Microsystems that obey the rules of quantum theory. According
to physicist Jayant Narlikar, Bose’s finding was one of the top achievements of 20th century Indian
science.

• According to a July 2012 New York Times article in which Bose is described as the "Father of the
'God Particle,'".
The Bose–Einstein Condensate
– A New Phase of Matter
In a BEC each particle in a collection of
particles exists in the same, identical
quantum state – the particles are
indistinguishable from one another.
In took over 70 years from Einstein’s
prediction of BECs for a pure single entity
to be seen.
This happened in 1995 when a gas of
rubidium atoms was cooled to within a
fraction of absolute zero: 1.7 ×107 kelvins,
merging about 2,000 individual atoms into
the same entity, a single super-atom,
which held together for less than 20
seconds.
Bosons is a type of particle
that obeys the rules of Bose-Einstein
statistics. These bosons also have a
quantum spin with contains an integer
value, such as 0, 1, -1, -2, 2, etc.
 Recognitions and Honors
• Although a number of Nobel Prizes have been awarded for research related to the
concepts of the Bosons and the Bose-Einstein Condensate but Bose was never awarded a
Nobel Prize.

• The India Government awarded Bose with Padma Vibhushan in 1954, the second highest
civilian award in the country.

• In 1959, he was appointed as the National Professor- the highest honour for a scholar.
Apart from that, he became:
i. Fellow of the Royal Society,
ii. adviser to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,
iii. President of the Indian Physical Society and the National Institute of Science,
iv. general president of the Indian Science Congress,
v. President of the Indian Statistical Institute

• 12 years after Bose’s death, the Indian Parliament established the S.N. Bose National
Centre for Basic Sciences in Salt Lake, Calcutta.