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This entry contributed by Michel Barran
Indian physicist, educated at Presidency College in Calcutta. He was lecturer at the Calcutta University College of
Science from 1917 to 1921 then became a reader in physics at the University of Dacca. His work ranged over statistical
mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, theories of X-ray crystallography,  and unified
field theory. His work in quantum statistics is the best known. Einstein's generalization of this work led to the
so-called Bose-Einstein statistics for particles of integral spin (now called "bosons," a word coined by
P. A. M. Dirac).
© 1996-2007 Eric W. Weisstein
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