New Delhi: Today is the death anniversary of great physicist and Padma Vibhushan awardee Satyendra Nath Bose. Satyendra Nath Bose along with the great scientist Albert Einstein gave the Bose-Einstein theory. Bose discovered a subatomic particle, which was named Boson to honor Bose. Born on 1 January 1894 in Kolkata, Satyendra Nath Bose is known worldwide for his work in quantum physics in the 1920s.

Satyendra Nath's father Surendranath Bose worked in the engineering department of the East Indian Railway Company. Satyendra Nath was the eldest of their seven children. His early studies took place in Bada Jagulia village of Nadia district. He did his intermediate from Presidency College, Kolkata, where scholars like Jagadish Chandra Bose and Prafulla Chandra Ray taught him. Satyendra Nath completed his MSc in Applied Maths in 1915. He topped in MSc, He is said to have passed with record numbers. This record still stands today. In 1924, as a reader in the physics department at Dhaka University, he wrote a paper on quantum statics and sent it to the famous scientist Albert Einstein. Einstein was greatly impressed by it and translated it into German and sent it to be published in a German science journal. On the basis of this identity, Satyendra Nath got the opportunity to work in a science lab of Europe.

In 1937, the great poet Rabindranath Tagore dedicated his book on science 'Vishva Parichay' to Satyendra Nath Bose. In 1954, the Government of India honored Bose with the Padma Vibhushan, the country's second-highest civilian award. Bose died in 1974. Apart from the discussion of his scholarship, he is also remembered for the fact that he did not get the respect he deserved. Many scientists have been given the Nobel for working on the particle boson discovered by them, but Satyendra Nath Bose himself was not given the Nobel Prize for this.

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