Satyendra Nath Bose Laid Foundation For Nobel Prize Winning Work

Kolkata: Rathindranath Bose, eldest son of Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose, after whom the sub-atomic particle Higgs Boson is named, expressed pleasure that his father's work spurred others and helped win honours.

Britain's Peter Higgs and Belgian Francois Englert were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work on the Higgs Boson -- popularly known as "God particle", a key element in scientists' theories explaining the makeup of all matter.

Boson - a type of elementary particle - was christened so to commemorate the research carried out by SN Bose in collaboration with Albert Einstein that theorises properties of these particles.

The Higgs Boson is a boson associated with the Higgs field -- an energy field that influences the mass of substances passing through it.

Though Bose did not get recognised with the prestigious award, his work has spawned a generation of scientists in the quest of the elusive "God particle", whose discovery was confirmed at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland earlier this year.

"His work cannot be judged in terms of any award... we have seen how significant his work is... so much so that other scientists whose works are based on his monumental research are getting the Nobel... it has become a part of textbooks," Bose's son said.

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