<b>1 January 1877</b>
Queen Victoria of England ceremoniously declared the "Empress of India". (Already proclaimed so on 28 April 1876 in Great Britain). The title was created nineteen years after the formal incorporation of India into the British Empire.
<b>1 January 1894</b>
Born, Satyendra Nath Basu, the noted physicist of "Bose-Einstein" fame, in Kolkata.
While working as a lecturer in the Physics Dept. of Dhaka University, Bose in 1924 wrote a paper deriving Planck's quantum radiation law without any reference to classical physics. When noted journals declined to publish his research, he sent the paper to Albert Einstein in Germany. Einstein, recognizing the importance of the research, himself translated it into German and submitted it on Bose's behalf to the prestigious Zeitschrift für Physik. As a result, Bose spent two years in Europe, and worked with Louis de Broglie, Marie Curie, and Einstein.
Declining offers to work in Europe and USA, he returned and continued to work in Dhaka Univ up until the partition of India, when he moved to his birth place Calcutta and continued to work as Professor in CU till his retirement in 1956.
While several Nobel Prize have been awarded for extending the concepts of Bose-Einstein statistics and Bose-Einstein condensate, the latest being the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics, Bose himself was never awarded the Nobel Prize, just like his earlier mentor Jagadish Chandra Basu. Like his teacher he was very unorthodox in his approach and did not consider commercial and modern approach to research, a testimony of which is that he did not bother to complete a Ph.D and was not qualified to be a professor. He was a firm promoter of Indic languages. For one, he always taught his students in Bengali, and even wrote several of his works on Physics in Bengali.
Queen Victoria of England ceremoniously declared the "Empress of India". (Already proclaimed so on 28 April 1876 in Great Britain). The title was created nineteen years after the formal incorporation of India into the British Empire.
<b>1 January 1894</b>
Born, Satyendra Nath Basu, the noted physicist of "Bose-Einstein" fame, in Kolkata.
While working as a lecturer in the Physics Dept. of Dhaka University, Bose in 1924 wrote a paper deriving Planck's quantum radiation law without any reference to classical physics. When noted journals declined to publish his research, he sent the paper to Albert Einstein in Germany. Einstein, recognizing the importance of the research, himself translated it into German and submitted it on Bose's behalf to the prestigious Zeitschrift für Physik. As a result, Bose spent two years in Europe, and worked with Louis de Broglie, Marie Curie, and Einstein.
Declining offers to work in Europe and USA, he returned and continued to work in Dhaka Univ up until the partition of India, when he moved to his birth place Calcutta and continued to work as Professor in CU till his retirement in 1956.
While several Nobel Prize have been awarded for extending the concepts of Bose-Einstein statistics and Bose-Einstein condensate, the latest being the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics, Bose himself was never awarded the Nobel Prize, just like his earlier mentor Jagadish Chandra Basu. Like his teacher he was very unorthodox in his approach and did not consider commercial and modern approach to research, a testimony of which is that he did not bother to complete a Ph.D and was not qualified to be a professor. He was a firm promoter of Indic languages. For one, he always taught his students in Bengali, and even wrote several of his works on Physics in Bengali.