Satyendra Nath Bose FRS ( Shottendronath Boshū, ʃot̪ːend̪ronat̪ʰ boʃu; 1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974) was an Indian mathematician

Mathematician

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 and physicist

Physicist

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 noted for his collaboration with Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

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 in developing a theory regarding the gaslike qualities of electromagnetic radiation

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. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics

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 in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics

Bose–Einstein statistics

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 and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate

Bose–Einstein condensate

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. He is honoured as the namesake of the boson

Boson

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