Satyendra Nath Bose, FRS, the famous physicist was born on 1 January 1894. He was a Bengali physicist specializing in mathematical physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate.
S N Bose was very close to Indian Statistical Institute and specially with P C Mahalanobis. He worked as Honorary Secretary at ISI during PCM’s abroad visit in 1948. As the Honorary Secretary, he presented the draft regarding the Reorganization of the Institute in the Council Meeting on 22 September 1947 when it was approved.
He had the close intimacy with ISI and PCM throughout his life. The Undergraduate Degree Courses of ISI was started in 1960. S N Bose inaugurated this Degree Course at a function held on 17 August 1960, at which addresses were also given by Prof. J B S Haldane and Prof. P C Mahalanobis. After the death of Girindra Sekhar Bose, Satyendra Nath Bose was appointed as the third Trustee at ISI. Later he became the Vice President of ISI in the same year. The 29 th anniversary celebrations of ISI commenced on 19 December 1960 and S N Bose, Vice-President of the Institute, was the guest speaker in this.
In its first Convocation of ISI, Professor S N Bose was conferred the Honorary Doctor of Science along with four other eminent persons like Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Sri Jawaharlal Nehru, Academician Andrei Nikolayevich Kolmogorov and Dr. Walter Andrew Shewhart,
National Professor Satyendra Nath Bose was elected as President of ISI in October 1967. A Fellow of the Royal Society S N Bose was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan in 1954 by the Government of India.
He remained as President of ISI till 1974. He died on 4 February 1974.