Life, Lectures and Addresses, Miscellaneous Pieces - SN Bose

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S N Bose :T he Man and His Work
Part I1 : Life, Lectures and Addresses,
Miscellaneous Pieces
S N Bose : The Man and His Work
Part XI :L ife, Lectures and Addresses,
Miscellaneous Pieces
1994
S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
Calcutta
EDITORS
C K Majumdar
Partha Ghose
Enakshi Chatterjee
Sarnik Bandyopadhyay
Santimay Chatter jee (PrincipalE ditor)
O S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Calcutta 1994
Typeset and printed by Graf-M Publisher, 3 Ashu Biswas Road, Calcutta 25, India
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Life
1 Childhood
2 College (1909-1915)
3 Early Career (1916-1921)
4 Dhaka University (1921-1924)
5 Europe (1924-1926)
6 Back to Dhaka (1927-1945)
7 Back to Calcutta (1945-1956)
8 Bose, Tagore and Visva-Bharati
9 The Last Lap (1959-1974)
10 The Complete Man
Notes
Lectures and Addresses
1 Science in Education
2 Search for New Sources of Power
3 Visva-Bharati
4 Higher Education for Us
5 Dr Mahendralal Sircar
6 Man in the Scientific Age
7 The Mother Tongue
8 Education and Science
9 On his Seventieth Birthday
10 Convocation Address at the Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur
11 Apiculture in India
12 The Krishnan Memorial Lecture, 1971
13 Education and the New Age
14 At the Calcutta University Convocation 1973
15 Address at Seminar on ScienGlfic Contributions of S N Bose
16 Contributions to Parliamentary Debates
Miscellaneous Pieces : Science and Culture in India
1 A Scientist's Apologia
2 The Progress of Science in Ancient India
3 The Problem of Education in Bengal and Asutosh
4 The Early Phase of My Explorations in Science
5 Jagadischandra
6 Remembering Acharya Prafullachandra
7 Swami Vivekananda
8 Netaji
9 Kumar Haritkrishna Deb
10 Probodhchandra Bagchi
11 Sisirkumar Mitra
12 In Memoriam : Prasantachandra Mahalanobis
Miscellaneous Pieces : Science and Scientists
1 Galileo
2 Einstein (1935)
3 Einstein (1965)
4 In the Company of Madame Curie
5 Jacques Hadamard, Mathematician
6 Otto Hahn : an obituary
7 The Japanese Scientist Tomonaga
8 A Flash-back
9 What Next ?
Biographical Resume
Index
List of Plates
1 The family house where Bose was born. Courtesy : Nemai Ghosh
2 Surendranath Bose, his father
3 Amodini Bose, his mother
4 Ushaboti Bose, his wife
5 Seated (left to right) : M N Saha, J C Bose, J C Ghosh. Standing ( left to right) :
Snehamoy Dutt, S N Bose, D M Bose, N R Sen, J N Mukherjee, N C Nag.
6 Seated (left to right) : P B Sarkar, Amaresh Chakravarty, P C Ray, T S Muttu, S N
Bose. Standing (left to right) : M N Saha, U N Karmakar, J C Ghosh, J N Mukherjee.
7 S N Bose and M N Saha at Dhaka
8 Dhaka University
9 The Dhaka house Bose lived in
10 Bose with Bertrand Zadoc-Kahn (l9Ol-l94O), a personal friend, on the balcony of
the latter's apartment in Paris (1924-25). Courtesy : Mme Jacqueline Eisenmann
12 Bose playing the esruj for the Mahalanabises on the occasion of a wedding anni-
versary
13 Bose, flanked by Jamini Roy on the left and Bishnu De on the right
14 Bose, with Niels Bohr
15 At the National Physical Laboratory. Seated (left to right) : A P Mitra, A R Verma,
S N Bose, T V Ramamurty. Standing (left to right) : Premprakash, V G Bhide, G C
Jain, F C Auluck.
16 Bose delivers the Krishnan Memorial Lecture at the Natiosal Physical Laboratory,
12 March 1971.
Acknowledgements
INSTITUTIONS
The Asiatic Society, Calcutta
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta
Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi
Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
Bangiya Vijnan Parishad, Calcutta
Bibliothhque Nationale, Paris
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi
Dhaka University, Dhaka
The Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem
Musee Curie, Institut Curie, Paris
National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi
National Library, Calcutta
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi
Rabindra Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan
Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi
The Royal Society, London
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics Library, Calcutta
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre Library, Calcutta
-for giving us access to information, material and documents in their holdings
THE FAMILY OF S N BOSE
and in particular Rathindranath and Benu Bose, Nilima Mitra, Ruchira Mitra,
Ramendranath Bose, and Jayanti Chattopadhyay
PUBLISHERS AND EDITORS OF JOURNALS
that originally carried S N Bose's papers appearing in this volume
AUTHORS
of the Introductions to the Collected Scientific Papers
TRANSLATORS
S V Raman, Biswarup Banerjee, Sangeeta Mitra for translations of papers and
correspondence in German
Agnes Rozario and M Schillings, sj for translations of papers in French
Somjit Datta for translations of articles in Bengali
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Nemai Ghosh, George Ponodath sj, Chitrabani
OTHER INDIVIDUALS
Debajyoti Datta, Tandra Datta, Kalyani Ghose
Emazuddin Ahmed, vice-chancellor, Dhaka University,
Abu Zaid Sikdar, Registrar, Dhaka University,
K M Mannan, Chairman, Physics Department, Dhaka University
Ajay Ray, Lalit Nath and other members of the Physics Faculty, Dhaka University,
Quazi A K M Mainuddin, photocopier operator at the Registrar's Office, Dhaka
University
Dilipkumar De, Hena Basu, Pronoti De, Mrinalkumar Dasgupta, Arunkumar
Dasgupta, Sarojranjan Chakravarty, Sadhan Dasgupta, Ranatosh Chakravarty,
Amitabha Chakravarty, Jyotirmoy Gupta, Dilip Malakar, Sandhya Mitra, Jugalkanti
Ray, Jayanta Basu
Ram Singh Tomar, Jyotirmoy Sanyal, Somendranath Bandyopadhyay and Dipankar
Chatterji, all of Visva-Bharati
Patrick Petitjean in Paris
Sanjida Khatun and Abdur Rajjak in Dhaka
Abhijit Datta and Prabhat Thakur
Hiralal, Professor Bose's old bearer