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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Satyendra Nath Bose has received more than 3,531,489 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Satyendra Nath Bose is the 180th most popular physicist (up from 190th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from India (up from 90th 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 180 out of 851. Before him are Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Emilio Segrè, Polykarp Kusch, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Martin Lewis Perl, and Alexander Prokhorov. After him are James Rainwater, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Igor Tamm, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and Klaus von Klitzing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Satyendra Nath Bose ranks 23. Before him are Harold Macmillan, Gala Dalí, Isaac Babel, Dietrich von Choltitz, Kiichiro Toyoda, and Alfred Kinsey. After him are Heinrich Lübke, Alexander Oparin, Pyotr Kapitsa, Otto Grotewohl, Hermann Oberth, and Benjamin Graham. Among people deceased in 1974, Satyendra Nath Bose ranks 24. Before him are Rudolf Dassler, David Oistrakh, Jacob L. Moreno, Darius Milhaud, Erich Kästner, and Zalman Shazar. After him are Peng Dehuai, Otto Strasser, Lewis Strauss, Louis Kahn, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Patrick Blackett.

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In India

Among people born in India, Satyendra Nath Bose ranks 79 out of 1,861. Before him are Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), Gerald Durrell (1925), Mithun Chakraborty (1950), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), Maudgalyayana (-568), and Paramahansa Yogananda (1893). After him are Sher Shah Suri (1486), Samudragupta (335), Ramana Maharshi (1879), Rajendra Prasad (1884), Lawrence Durrell (1912), and Nathuram Godse (1910).

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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 Anna Mani (1918), Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Tom Kibble (1932), Raja Ramanna (1925), Daulat Singh Kothari (1906), and Abhay Ashtekar (1949).

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