| It is Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974) after whom the sub-atomic particle 'boson' is named - probably the only noun in the English language named after an Indian (hence never capitalized). Sharon Ann Holgate, a British science writer and broadcaster who made an acclaimed radio documentary on Bose for the BBC some years ago said that Bose was overlooked, perhaps because of institutionalised racism. Of the three main past and present physicists behind the landmark proton-smashing quantum physics experiment in Geneva Wednesday, one has a Nobel Prize, the other is waiting to find out if he has one, and the third never got one. The third man is the Bose of the 'Higgs-boson' experiment - Satyendra Nath Bose. Read > |
Role of Indian Scientists in LHC Sphere: Related Content
Posts
gurukulam
No comments:
Post a Comment