Meet Satyendra Nath Bose, the Indian physicist whose work transformed quantum physics and inspired the name ‘bosons’

Mint - Oct 26, 2026

Satyendra Nath Bose was an Indian physicist whose groundbreaking work transformed quantum physics. In 1924, he sent a paper to Albert Einstein, who recognised its importance and helped publish it. His research laid the foundation for Bose-Einstein statistics and inspired the term ‘bosons’.

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