Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Satyendra Nath Bose - His Life and Times K. C. Wali -- Beginnings -- Presidency College, Swadeshi Movement -- Marriage, Career Ups and Downs -- Paris and Berlin -- Professor in Dacca -- Khaira Professor in Calcutta -- Aftermath, Independent India -- Travels Abroad -- Vice Chancellor at Visva-Bharati -- Professor Emeritus -- National Professor -- Conclusion -- References and Notes -- I. Selected Scientific Papers -- A. Early Papers - Classical Physics -- On the Influence of the Finite Volume of Molecules on the Equation of State [Phil. Mag. Ser. 6, 36, pp. 199-203 (1918)] M. N. Saha and S. N. Basu -- On the Herpolhode [Bull. Cal. Math. Soc. 11, pp. 21-22 (1919)] S. Basu -- On The Equation of State [Phil. Mag. Ser. 6, 39, p. 456 (1920)] M. N. Saha and S. N. Basu -- B. Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Statistics -- On the Deduction of Rydberg's Law from the Quantum Theory of Spectral Emission [Phil. Mag. 40, pp. 619-627 (1920)] S. N. Basu -- Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese [Z. Physik 26, pp. 168-171 (1924)] Bose -- Planck's Law and the Light-Quantum Hypothesis [English translation of Z. Physik 26, pp. 168-171 (1924)] Bose -- Wiirmegleichgewicht im Strahlungsfeld bei Anwesenheit von Materie [Z. Physik 27, pp. 384-393 (1924)] S. N. Bose -- Thermal Equilibrium in the Radiation Field in the Presence of Matter [English translation of Z. Physik 27, pp. 384-393 (1924)] S. N. Bose -- A Note on Dirac Equation and the Zeeman Effect [Ind. J. Phys. 17, pp. 301-308 (1943)J S. N. Bose and K. Basu -- C. The Ionosphere - Mathematical Physics -- Anomalous Dielectric Constant of Artificial Ionosphere [Sci. fj Cult. 3, pp. 335-337 (1937)J S. N. Bose and S. R. Khastgir -- On the Total Reflection of Electromagnetic Waves in the Ionosphere [Ind. J. Phys. 12, pp. 121-144 (1938)J S. N. Bose.

On the Complete Moment-Coefficients of the D2-Statistic [Sankhya ~ Ind. J. Stat. 2, pp. 385-396 (1936)J S. N. Bose -- On the Moment-Coefficients of the D2-Statistic and Certain Integral and Differential Equations Connected with the Multivariate Normal Population [Sankhya ~ Ind. J. Stat. 3, pp. 105-124 (1937)J S. N. Bose -- ALGEBRAIC IDENTITIES DEDUCED FROM THE POLYNOMIAL FOR -- \I OF THE MOMENT-COEFFICIE~TS OF THE D2_STATISTIC. -- ALoEBRAIO IDENTITIES DEDUOED FROM THE DIFFERENTIAL FORM OF THE MOMENT-COEFFlOIENT. -- THB INTEGRAL EQUATION OONNBOTBD WITH THE MOMENT-()OEFFICIENTS AND ITS SoLUTIONS. -- SPHERICAL FORM OF THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION CONNECTED WITH THE MULTIVARIATE NORMAL POPULATION. -- THE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION IN PARABOLIO FORM. -- THE DIFJ<'ERENTIAL EQUATION IN THE PRODUCT J<'ROM. -- FURTHER REDUCTION OF THE PARABOLIC FORM TO POLAR FORM -- ON THE SERIES SOLUTION OF THE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION. -- Studies in Lorentz Group [Bull. Cal. Math. Soc. 31, pp. 137-147 (1939)J S. N. Bose -- The Complete Solution of the Equation: V2¢ - c~~r2 -k2 ¢ = -41fp(xyzt) [Proc. Nat. Inst. Sc. India 7, pp. 93-102 (1941)J S. N. Bose and S. C. Kar -- On an Integral Equation Associated with the Equation for Hydrogen Atom [Bull. Cal. Math. Soc. 37, pp. 51-61 (1945)J S. N. Bose -- D. Unified Field Theory -- The Identities of Divergence in the New Unitary Theory [English translation of Comptes rendus de L 'Academie des Sciences 236, pp. 1333-1335 (1953)J Note of S. N. Bose, presented by L. de Broglie -- A Unitary Field Theory with r J.' -I=- 0 [English translation of Le Jour de Phys et le Radium (Paris), 14, pp. 641-644 (1953)J S. N. Bose -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The new equations -- 3. Particular case.

Certain Consequences of the Existence of the Tensor g in the Affine Relativistic Field [English translation of Le Jour de Phys et le Radium (Paris), 14, pp. 645-647 (1953)J S. N. Bose -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Case I. -- 3. Case II. -- The Affine Connection in Einstein's New Unitary Field Theory [Ann. Math. USA 59, pp. 171-176 (1954) (Princeton University, NJ)] S. N. Bose -- Solution of a Tensor Equation Occurring in the Unitary Field Theory [English translation of Bull. Soc. Math. 83, pp. 81-88 (1955)] S. N. Bose -- II. Satyendra N ath Bose -- A. Lectures and Addresses -- Science in Education [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 127-133] Proc. The Bengal Education Week, I, pp. 56-64 (1936) -- Visva-Bharati [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 141-144] Convocation address delivered at Visva-Bharati on 15 January 1957 -- Higher Education and Us [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 145-150] Convocation address delivered at Calcutta University in 1962 -- Man in the Scientific Age [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 157-161] Address at a Symposium in Tokyo, Japan 1962 -- The Mother Tongue [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 162-167] Address delivered in Bengali at the "Angrezi Hatao Conference" (Banish English Conference) at Hyderabad in October 1962 -- Education and Science [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 168-174] Convocation address delivered at Ranchi University on 11 May 1963 -- On His Seventieth Birthday [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 175-180] Address given in Bengali at the Mahajati Sadan Auditorium, Calcutta on 1 January 1964 -- The Krishnan Memorial Lecture, 1971 [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 188-195] Lecture delivered at the National Physical Laboratory on 12 March 1971 -- Education and the New Age [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 196-199] Address delivered in Bengali at the Rabindra Bharati University on 10 May 1971.

At the Calcutta University Convocation 1973 [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 200-203] Convocation address delivered in Bengali at Calcutta University on 16 June 1973 -- Address at Seminar on Scientific Contributions of S. N. Bose [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 204-206] Speech delivered at the Calcutta Mathematical Society on 29 December 1973 -- B. Miscellaneous Pieces -- A Scientist's Apologia [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 219-223] -- The Progress of Science in Ancient India [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 224-229] -- The Early Phase of My Explorations in Science [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 244-249] -- Einstein (1935) [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 279-284] -- In the Company of Madame Curie [Man and His Work, Part II, pp. 290-291] -- III. Historical Perspectives -- Reflections -- A Loss of Identity: The Birth of Quantum Statistics [' Subtle is the Lord' The Science and Life of Albert Einstein (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1982)] A. Pais -- 23a. From Boltzmann to Dirac -- 23b. Bose -- 23c. Einstein -- 23d. Postscript on Bose-Einstein Condensation -- References -- Bose Statistics: A Historical Perspective [The Man and His Work, Part I, pp. 35-70] P. Ghose -- a. Planck's derivation of his law of black-body radiation -- b. Einstein's light-quantum hypothesis -- c. Debye's derivation of Planck's law -- d. Indistinguishability of Planck's quanta -- e. The introduction of phase space cells by Planck -- f. Spontaneous and induced transitions -- g. Reactions to the light-quantum hypothesis: discovery of the Compton effect -- h. Pauli's derivation of Planck's law -- i. Bose's derivation -- j. The birth of a new statistics: Einstein applies Bose's method to ideal gases -- k. The birth of wave mechanics -- 1. Further developments -- m. Did Bose make a 'shot in the dark'? -- n. Bose's secoDdpaper (1924) -- o. Bose's third (unpublished) paper (1925).

Referenees -- Who Discovered the Bose-Einstein Statistics? [Symmetries in Physics (1600-1690) -- Proc. 1st Int. Meeting, Saint Feliu de Guixoles, Catalonia, Spain (September 20-26, 1983) pp. 222-250] S. Bergia -- CONTENTS -- 1. Foreword -- 2. Bose's first paper of 1924 -- .3. The problem of the transmission -- 4. Planck's paper of 1900 -- 5. Debye 1910 -- 6. Natanson -- 7. The Wolfke-Krutkow dialogue and the idea of the «light molecules» -- 8. Ehrenfest and Kamerlingh Onnes -- 9. Wolfke 1921 -- 10. De Broglie on the statistics of light atoms -- 11. Radiation and free electrons: Compton, Pauli, Einstein and Ehrenfest -- 12. From Debye to Bose -- References -- DISCUSSION -- Addendum P. Ghose -- 1 de Broglie and Bose -- 2 Bose's second paper -- 3 Delbruck's Paper -- References -- Nobel Lecture: Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Gas, the First 70 Years and Some Recent Experiments* [Rev. Mod. Phys. 74,875 (2002)] E. A. Cornell and C. E. Wieman -- FAVORITE EXPERIMENTS -- Collective excitations -- Two-component condensates -- Coherence and condensate decay -- Feshbach resonance physics -- An optimistic appendix -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Experimental Proof of the Spin of the Photon C. V. Raman and S. Bhagavantam -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The theory of photon spin -- 3. Selection rules in light-scattering -- 4. Scattering of spinning photons -- 5. Depolarisation of scattering -- 6. Experimental method and results -- 7. Observations with liquids -- Evidence for the Spin of the Photon from Light Scattering C. V. Raman and S. Bhagavantam -- S. N. Bose: The Man [Talk presented at a seminar on Albert Einstein, Dhaka, 30 May, 2005 -- Proc. Bangladesh Academy of Sciences] P. Ghose -- References -- Satyendranath Bose: Co-Founder of Quantum Statistics [Am. J. Phys. 40, 1212 (1972)] W. A. Blanpied -- I. INTRODUCTION: BOSE AND THE PLANCK LAW.

II. BOSE AT CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY.