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Satyendra Nath Bose

1894 - 1974

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Satyendra Nath Bose (; 1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974) was an Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics, and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, in 1954 by the Government of India. The eponymous particles class described by Bose's statistics, bosons, were named by Paul Dirac. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Satyendra Nath Bose is the 245th most popular physicist (down from 180th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from India (down from 79th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Physicist.

Satyendra Nath Bose was most famous for his work in quantum mechanics, specifically the Bose-Einstein statistics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Satyendra Nath Bose ranks 245 out of 851. Before him are Arthur Ashkin, Willard Boyle, John Cockcroft, Gérard Mourou, William Shockley, and David Bohm. After him are Ivar Giaever, Ratko Janev, Anton Zeilinger, Kenneth G. Wilson, C. P. Snow, and Jim Peebles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Satyendra Nath Bose ranks 32. Before him are Harold Macmillan, Kiichiro Toyoda, Alfred Kinsey, C. R. Swart, Hermann Oberth, and Otto Grotewohl. After him are Dashiell Hammett, Benjamin Graham, Arthur Nebe, Wilhelm Bittrich, Fyodor Tolbukhin, and Alexander Dovzhenko. Among people deceased in 1974, Satyendra Nath Bose ranks 29. Before him are Miguel Ángel Asturias, Darius Milhaud, Duke Ellington, Jacob L. Moreno, Peng Dehuai, and Otto Strasser. After him are Lewis Strauss, Zalman Shazar, Louis Kahn, Fritz Zwicky, Carl Spaatz, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

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In India

Among people born in India, Satyendra Nath Bose ranks 119 out of 1,861. Before him are Ram Nath Kovind (1945), Pervez Musharraf (1943), Muhammad Azam Shah (1653), Tipu Sultan (1750), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), and Baji Rao I (1700). After him are Maharana Pratap (1540), Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), Rajendra Prasad (1884), A. R. Rahman (1966), Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835), and Samudragupta (335).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Satyendra Nath Bose ranks 2. Before him are C. V. Raman (1888). After him are Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Anna Mani (1918), Tom Kibble (1932), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932), Abhay Ashtekar (1949), and Daulat Singh Kothari (1906).

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