Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Jan 1 (NT): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday gave his address by means of video conference the curtain-raiser formal procedure of the celebration of Professor Satyendra Nath Bose's 125th birth anniversary at Kolkata.

Physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, born on January 1, 1894, is known for his paramount work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate.

The group of particles that act upon Bose-Einstein statistics has been given a name Bosons, after Prof S.N.Bose.

The prime minister was on the track of his inaugural address in Bengali by extending wishes for the New Year.

"We open a long year celebration of the 125th year of Satyendra Nath Bose who was born on this day in 1894. I have learnt about his accomplishment which is far ahead of his times and society. We have a lot to learn from the life and works of Acharya SN Bose. He was a self-taught scholar. He succeeded despite many constraints - including the lack of formal research education and little connectivity with global scientific community," Prime Minister Modi said. As quoted by ANI

The prime minister further said that science and technology should throw in towards building a New India.

"Anyone associated with science and technology must focus their innovation and research towards building a New India. Our country's scientists will continue to give us creative technological solutions with their out of box thinking, in order to make lives of people easier," he said.

In the speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also shed light on the contribution of Bengalis in a range of fields and said, "It is a matter of pride for India that Bengal has given the best scientists to the world."(NT)