The Life of Indian Physicist Satyendra Nath Bose

The unheralded Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose sent a letter to Einstein in 1924. It would alter the direction of quantum mechanics

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The Life of Indian Physicist Satyendra Nath Bose

Somaditya (Soma) Banerjee at Aeon Magazine: On a summer day in 1924, a young Indian physicist named Satyendra Nath Bose sent a paper and a letter to Albert Einstein. It would shape the nascent field of quantum mechanics and secure Bose a place in the annals of scientific history. At the time, Bose was teaching in colonial India, thousands of miles from the centres of European science. In his letter, the 30-year-old Bose explained that he had fou…