Satyendra Nath Bose: The Indian behind the boson

Satyendra Nath Bose: The Indian who was left behind

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 >

 Satyendra Nath Bose: The Indian behind the boson

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Science and Religion: In Search of Higgs boson, the God Particle

Spending 9 billiom dollars, 6,500 scientists from 80 nationalities ignite proton collision at Cern's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) today. The final  experiment will begin and end in a fraction of millionth of a second and produce  vast quantities of data which need a storage facility  equal to 56m CDs. Scientists are waiting to answer the biggest questions that exist in modern science. They want to test our understanding of the universe and find out if dark matter exists, whether the four dimensions of space-time are it or in fact there are eleven dimensions! They want to know why some particles have mass and some, like particles of light, don't. 

For the full story read Andy Smith in the Independent 

BBC Guide to CERN Experiment

Indian laboratories, led by Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT) at Indore, have contributed substantially towards construction of the accelerator (LHC) itself, with many components being fabricated by Indian industry and supplied to CERN . .. Read >Indian Scientists with CERN

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