Renowned Kolkata scientist Satyendra Nath Bose wrote a revolutionary physics paper that gave birth to Bose-Einstein statistics. Although initially rejected by a leading journal, the paper found its ...

Nature India: What inspired you to embark on a career in particle physics? Partha Ghose: In 1961, I went to Imperial College London wanting to decipher what lies at the deepest core of matter. This ...

India, Nov. 20 -- A hundred years ago, a young physics teacher in Calcutta quietly rewrote the way nature counts. On November 20, the idea he discovered-now known as Bose-Einstein statistics-turns 101 ...

A quantum system consisting of a large number of microscopic particles obeys statistical laws at the macroscopic level. In nature, there are two kinds of microscopic quantum particles. One is boson ...