Satyendra nath bose and einstein
Satyendra nath bose and einstein...
History
In an Indian physicist called Satyendra Nath Bose wrote to Albert Einstein saying he had solved a problem in quantum physics that had stumped the great man.
One century on, Robert P Crease and Gino Elia explain how the correspondence led to the notion of Bose–Einstein condensation and why it revealed the power of diverse thinking
One day in June , Albert Einstein received a letter written by a professor in India.
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The author admitted he was a “complete stranger” but said he was sending Einstein an accompanying article for his “perusal and opinion”. Just five pages long, the article claimed to address a flaw in quantum theory that Einstein had struggled unsuccessfully with for several years.
Einstein, who was then at the University of Berlin, immediately realized that the author – Satyendra Nath Bose – had solved the problem that had defeated him.
It concerned a fully satisfactory derivation of Planck’s law, which describes the spectrum of radiation from a