When Einstein rescued Satyendra Nath Bose's rejected paper, changing quantum physics

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.


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