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- Title
Transnational Quantum: Quantum Physics in India through the Lens of Satyendranath Bose.
- Authors
Banerjee, Somaditya
- Abstract
This paper traces the social and cultural dimensions of quantum physics in colonial India where Satyendranath Bose worked. By focusing on Bose's approach towards the quantum and his collaboration with Albert Einstein, I argue that his physics displayed both the localities of doing science in early twentieth century India as well as a cosmopolitan dimension. He transformed the fundamental new concept of the light quantum developed by Einstein in 1905 within the social and political context of colonial India. This cross-pollination of the local with the global is termed here as the locally rooted cosmopolitan nature of Bose's science. The production of new knowledge through quantum statistics by Bose show the co-constructed nature of physics and the transnational nature of the quantum.
- Subjects
INDIA; QUANTUM theory; BOSE, Satyendranath, 1894-1974; EINSTEIN, Albert, 1879-1955; BOSE-Einstein statistics; COSMOPOLITANISM; BHADRALOKS
- Publication
Physics in Perspective, 2016, Vol 18, Issue 2, p157
- ISSN
1422-6944
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00016-016-0182-3