page_title: Satyendra Nath Bose
section_title: Honours
hierarchical_section_title: Satyendra Nath Bose / Honours
caption_attribution_description: English: Seated (L to R):Meghnad Saha, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Jnan Chandra Ghosh.Standing (L to R): Snehamoy Dutt, Satyendranath Bose, Debendra Mohan Bose, N R Sen, Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, N C Nag
context_page_description: Satyendra Nath Bose, FRS was an Indian mathematician and physicist specialising in theoretical physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, collaboration with Albert Einstein in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan in 1954 by the Government of India.
  The class of particles that obey Bose–Einstein statistics, bosons, was named after Bose by Paul Dirac.
  A polymath, he had a wide range of interests in varied fields including physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature, and music. He served on many research and development committees in sovereign India.
context_section_description: In 1937, Rabindranath Tagore dedicated his only book on science, Visva–Parichay, to Satyendra Nath Bose. Bose was honoured with title Padma Vibhushan by the Indian Government in 1954. In 1959, he was appointed as the National Professor, the highest honour in the country for a scholar, a position he held for 15 years. In 1986, the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences was established by an act of Parliament, Government of India, in Salt Lake, Calcutta.
  Bose became an adviser to then newly formed Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.  He was the President of Indian Physical Society and the National Institute of Science. He was elected General President of the Indian Science Congress. He was the Vice-President and then the President of Indian Statistical Institute.  In 1958, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.  He was nominated as member of Rajya Sabha.
  Partha Ghose has stated that
   Bose's work stood at the transition between the 'old quantum theory' of Planck, Bohr and Einstein and the new quantum mechanics of Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Born, Dirac and others.
caption: S N Bose with other scientists at Calcutta University