Tag Archives: Satyendra Nath Bose
Looking (only) for Nehru
I have a habit of watching one old Tamil film a day. Yesterday evening, I was watching a film released in 1987, called Ivargal Indiyargal (‘They Are Indians’). In a scene in the film, an office manager distributes sweets to … Continue reading
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Tagged Chandrayaan 3, Higgs boson, Indian Space Research Organisation, Ivargal Indiyargal, Jawaharlal Nehru, Satyendra Nath Bose, Vikram Sarabhai
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PTI, celebrating scientists, and class/caste
PTI’s decision to stick Anna Menon’s name in a headline about the new SpaceX crew makes no sense. Continue reading
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Tagged Anil Menon, Anna Menon, Har Gobind Khorana, Indian last name, Meghnad Saha, Polaris Dawn, PTI, Satyendra Nath Bose
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On anticipation and the history of science
In mid-2012, shortly after physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe had announced the discovery of a particle that looked a lot like the Higgs boson, there was some clamour in India over news reports not paying … Continue reading
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Tagged attribution, history of science, K Ramamohan Rao, Nisar Ahmed, Satyendra Nath Bose, science communication
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When cooling down really means slowing down
Consider this post the latest in a loosely defined series about atomic cooling techniques that I’ve been writing since June 2018. Atoms can’t run a temperature, but things made up of atoms, like a chair or table, can become hotter … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, atomic cooling, atomic trap, Bose-Einstein condensate, Bose-Einstein statistics, Carl Wieman, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, collisional cooling, diatomic molecules, Eric Cornell, Harvard University, laser cooling, Massachusetts Institute of Technoogy, NaLi, niobium nitride, quantum chemistry, quantum computing, S Pancharatnam, Satyendra Nath Bose, Shivaramakrishnan Pancharatnam, Sisyphus cooling, spin polarization, superconductors, superfluids, University of Waterloo, Wolfgang Ketterle
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Relativity’s kin, the Bose-Einstein condensate, is 90 now
The BEC was Einstein’s last major prediction and it took a revolution in quantum optics to be realised. Continue reading
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Tagged Bose-Einstein condensate, laser cooling, magnetic traps, quantum entanglement, Quantum mechanics, Satyendra Nath Bose, Wolfgang Ketterle
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The Nobel intent
About three weeks from now, the Nobel Foundation will announce the winners of the 2015 Nobel Prizes. Every year, commentators, opinionators and enthusiasts try to guess who will win the awards – some of them have become famous because they’ve been … Continue reading
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Tagged Bose-Einstein condensate, Daulat Kothari, Gunnar Jahn, Meghnad Saha, Mohandas Gandhi, Nobel Prize, Satyendra Nath Bose
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Gerald Guralnik (1936-2014)
Of the six scientists who came up with the idea of a Higgs boson in the mid-1960s, independently or in collaboration with others, I’ve met all of one. Tom Kibble was at the Institute of Mathematical Science, Chennai, in January 2013 … Continue reading
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Tagged Francois Englert, Gerald Guralnik, Higgs boson, Nobel Prize for physics, Peter Higgs, Physical Review Letters, primacy, Satyendra Nath Bose, theoretical physics, Tom Kibble
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The non-Nobel for Satyen Bose
Last week, as the Nobel Prizes were announced and Peter Higgs and Francois Englert won the highly coveted physics prize, dust was kicked up in India – just as it was in July and then in September 2012 – about … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, bosons, Francois Englert, Nobel Prize for physics 2013, Peter Higgs, post-colonialism, recognition, Satyendra Nath Bose
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Would you just calm down about the Bose in the boson?
July, 2012 – A Higgs boson-like entity is spotted at the Large Hadron Collider. Indians decry the lack of celebration of S.N. Bose, the Bengali physicist whom bosons are named for. January, 2013 – The particle found at the LHC is confirmed … Continue reading
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Tagged Francois Englert, Higgs mechanism, Nobel Prize, Peter Higgs, Satyendra Nath Bose
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The Indian Bose in the universal boson
Read this article. Do you think Indians are harping too much about the lack of mention of Satyendra Nath Bose’s name in the media coverage of the CERN announcement last week? The articles in Hindustan Times and Economic Times seemed … Continue reading
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Tagged Colonialism, media, particle physics, Peter Higgs, Priyamvada Natarajan, Satyendra Nath Bose
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