玻色於1924年寫了一篇推導普朗克量子輻射定律的論文（詳見下節〈薩特延德拉·納特·玻色#沒錯的錯誤〉），當中並沒有提到任何古典物理。在開始時未能發表的挫折下，他把論文直接寄給身在德國的艾爾伯特·愛因斯坦。愛因斯坦意識到這篇論文的重要性，不但親自把它翻譯成德語，還以玻色的名義把論文遞予名望頗高的《德國物理學刊》（Zeitschrift für Physik）發表。就是因為此次賞識，玻色能夠第一次離開印度，前往歐洲並逗留兩年，期間與路易·德布罗意、瑪麗·居禮及愛因斯坦工作過。
1927年在意大利科莫举行了科莫会议（義大利語：Congresso internazionale dei fisici del 1927），除了爱因斯坦、薛定谔和狄拉克以外，当代最著名了物理学家，包括玻尔、海森堡、普朗克、洛倫茲、德布罗意等都出席了。但是玻色却没有能够出席，原因很离奇。因为当时大会向远在印度的玻色教授发出了邀请函，寄往了加尔各答大学，署名“寄给加尔各答大学的玻色教授”。但是当时玻色已经离开加尔各答大学去了达卡大学，而加尔各答大学还有一位姓玻色，全名叫做D.M.玻色的教授，而当时的通讯并不如现在发达，于是这位名不见经传的玻色就代替了当时已经很有名望的S.N.玻色，参加了众星云集的科莫大会。
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.[3][4]
Bose's work stood at the transition between the 'old quantum theory' of Planck, Bohr and Einstein and the new quantum mechanics of Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Born, Dirac and others.
諾貝爾獎提名
S.N. Bose 由 K. Banerji（1956）、D.S. Kothari（1959）、S.N. Bagchi（1962）和A.K. Dutta（1962）以表彰他對玻色-愛因斯坦統計和統一場論的貢獻提名獲得諾貝爾物理學獎。
(1). He (Bose) made very outstanding contributions to physics by developing the statistics known after his name as Bose statistics. In recent years this statistics is found to be of profound importance in the classifications of fundamental particles and has contributed immensely to the development of nuclear physics. (2). During the period from 1953 to date, he has made a number of highly interesting contributions of far-reaching consequences on the subject of Einstein’s Unitary Field Theory.
Bosons, a class of elementary subatomic particles in particle physics were named by Dirac after Satyendra Nath Bose to commemorate his contributions to science.[9][10]
In his book The Scientific Edge, physicist Jayant Narlikar observed:
SN Bose's work on particle statistics (c. 1922), which clarified the behaviour of photons (the particles of light in an enclosure) and opened the door to new ideas on statistics of Microsystems that obey the rules of quantum theory, was one of the top ten achievements of 20th century Indian science and could be considered in the Nobel Prize class.[11]
When Bose himself was once asked that question, he simply replied, "I have got all the recognition I deserve"— probably because in the realms of science to which he belonged, what is important is not a Nobel, but whether one's name will live on in scientific discussions in the decades to come.[12]
One of the main academic buildings of University of Rajshahi, the No 1 science building has recently been named after him.
On 4 June 2022, Google honoured Bose by featuring him on a Google Doodle marking the 98th anniversary of Bose sending his quantum formulations to the German scientist Albert Einstein who recognised it as a significant discovery in quantum mechanics.[13][14]
參考資料
S. N. Bose. "Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese", Zeitschrift für Physik 26:178-181 (1924). (The German translation of Bose's paper on Planck's law)
Abraham Pais. "Subtle is the Lord...": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. (pp. 423-434). ISBN 0-19-853907-X.
"Heat and thermodynamics" Saha and Srivasthava.
註釋
^The Scientific Edge by Jayant V. Narlikar, Penguin Books, 2003, page 127.其他納里卡認為其研究達到諾貝爾獎級數的二十世紀印度科學家還有拉馬努金、錢德拉塞卡拉·拉曼和梅格納德·薩哈（Megn Nad Saha）
^Singh, Rajinder (2016) India's Nobel Prize Nominators and Nominees – The Praxis of Nomination and Geographical Distribution, Shaker Publisher, Aachen, pp. 26–27. ISBN978-3-8440-4315-0
^Singh, Rajinder (2016) Die Nobelpreise und die indische Elite, Shaker Verlag, Aachen, pp. 24–25. ISBN978-3-8440-4429-4
^Singh, Rajinder (2016) Chemistry and Physics Nobel Prizes – India's Contribution, Shaker Verlag, Aachen. ISBN978-3-8440-4669-4
