International Indian Scientist Awards

When Einstein rescued Satyendra Nath Bose's rejected paper, changing quantum physics On the death anniversary of Satyendra Nath Bose, the man behind Higg's boson or the 'God Particle', we revisit how Einstein stepped in to save his rejected paper, leading to the Bose-Einstein statistics. Though Bose never won a Nobel, his work helped shape the field of quantum physics. On a typical day in 1924, Satyendra Nath Bose, a physicist from Kolkata, faced a disappointing setback. His paper on quantum statistics that introduced a novel way to describe particles of light (photons) had been rejected by a prominent journal. His paper treating particles as indistinguishable, challenging classical physics. It was a brand new concept, perhaps too bold for the time, and The Philosophical Magazine rejected it. IIndian Scientist Awards 2025! Visit: indianscientist.in/ Contact: indian@indianscientist.in Nomination Link: https://indianscientist.in/award-nomination/?ecategory=Awards&rca...

Biotechnology is just one of the many industries around the world that artificial intelligence (AI) is changing. With the rapid advancements in technology, the integration of artificial intelligence in biotechnology is opening up transformative possibilities in healthcare, agriculture, and industrial processes. By its very nature, biotechnology produces large and intricate datasets, whether they are related to cellular interactions, protein structures, or genetic sequences. AI is transforming the biotech industry by making processes faster, more accurate, and highly scalable in fields like genetic engineering, personalized medicine, agricultural biotech, and drug discovery. It used to take years of study, extensive knowledge, and trial-and-error experimentation to analyze such data. But the biotech sector is changing drastically as a result of AI and machine learning. AI speeds up innovation, improves the capacity to precisely interpret biological data, and provides scalable, predict...

India observes February 28 as ‘National Science Day’ to mark the discovery of ‘Raman Effect’ by Sir CV Raman on February 28, 1928, the discovery for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930. But what exactly is Raman Effect? Let’s try to understand Rayleigh scattering Before diving into the Raman Effect, it is important to first understand its background. It all started with the ‘Rayleigh scattering’, a theory proposed by British physicist Lord Rayleigh, in which he answered the most basic question: Why is the sky blue? His theory stated that when sunlight interacts with air particles, it gets scattered. Because light is made up of different colours, the degree of scattering depends on the wavelength of the colour. Since violet and blue colours have low wavelengths, they get scattered the most. But because human eyes are more sensitive to the blue colour, the sky appears blue. Rayleigh then argued that the blue colour of the ocean is the mere reflection of the blue c...