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94 PIONEERING A NEW FUTURE
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
Above: MK Dasgupta, ECG Sudarshan,
PK Kabir, CK Majumdar,
P Ghose, K Nishijima, DJ Gross, A Aspect (L to R) at the Bose Centenary celebration (1994)
Established on 13 June 1986, the Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences stepped into its 35th year in 2020. In order to pay tribute to the memory of Prof. Satyendra Nath Bose, the Government of India constituted a committee
in 1982 headed by the Governor of West Bengal, and consisting of a few eminent scientists of the country, to study the feasibility of setting
up of a national centre named after Prof.
Bose. The efforts reached fruition in
1986 when the Department of Science & Technology created this new centre with an autonomous status.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
S.N. Bose Centre undertakes cutting edge research in chosen areas of basic sciences including areas of application potentials, to train young persons in advanced areas to strengthen basic research and expand R&D-based human
capacity.
At present, R&D activities in the centre
are carried out in four departments, namely: (i) astrophysics and cosmology, (ii) chemical, biological, and macromolecular sciences, (iii)
condensed matter physics & material sciences, and (iv) theoretical sciences. Among several current
thrust directions, notable research progress
has been achieved in the areas of computational materials science, quantum science & technology, quantum field theory, gravitational physics, statistical physics and theoretical & observational astronomy, ultrafast spectroscopy, advanced materials including nano materials, soft materials and biomaterials.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Human resource development is a key mandate of the centre. The institute has thrived for excellence in research and training high quality scientific humanpower through sustainable academic programmes.
Research Infrastructures and Facilities: The centre has created a thematic unit of excellence
on nanoscience with nanofabrication and a Class 1000 cleanroom facility, and Massively Parallel Cray supercomputing facility. The centre is also equipped with research facilities like femtosecond time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr microscope, micro-focused Brillouin light scattering setup, cavity ring-down spectrometer, THz and ultrafast spectroscopy and several nanofabrication facilities,
A VISIONARY | Prof. Satyendra Nath Bose
Prof. Satyendra Nath Bose (1894—1974) was one of the foremost quantum physicists of the world. He is immortalized by his discovery of Bose Statistics in
1924. Subsequently, coinages like Bose-Einstein Condensation and Higgs boson highlight his contributions that remain relevant even to contemporary physics.
Half of the fundamental particles of the universe – bosons – are named after him.