Bose and His Statistics

This series, which is a soil of random walk in physics, is mainly intended to arouse the curiosity of the serious reader, besides capturing the drama and excitement of great discoveries.
The present volume is about Bose statistics, and about Satyendranath Bose who made the great discovery, The author. Dr. G. Venkataraman started his career in the fifties at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, and has spent over a decade at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam. He was, until recently, with the Defence Research and Development Organisation in Hyderabad. A condensed matter physicist, he has worked in some of the areas pursued earlier by Sir C. V. Raman. He is Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences, and was formerly the President of the Indian Physics Association. He was awarded the Sir C. V. Raman Prize by the University Grants Commission in 1979, and was Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow from 1984 to 1986. In 1991 he was honoured with the Padma Shri. In addition to the monographs Dynamics of Perfect Crystals and Beyond the Crystalline State, Dr, Venkataraman is also the author of the widely acclaimed Journey Into Light: Life and Science of C. V. Raman.