Satyendranath Bose at Dhaka University in the 1930s. Credit: Unknown

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   Sheril Kirshenbaum (sheril@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 16:55:41 JST Sheril Kirshenbaum

   Satyendranath Bose was a brilliant theoretical physicist born this week in 1894 in West Bengal (now India).

   In 1924, while on faculty at the University of Dacca, he wrote a short paper to Albert Einstein about indistinguishable particles related to quantum theory.

   Einstein immediately recognized Bose’ genius, translated the work into German & made sure it was published. Bose ideas led to Bose-Einstein statistics which continue to be studied in quantum mechanics. #science #history