About Falguni Sarkar

Falguni Sarkar is one of the grandchildren of the famed Bengali mathematician and scientist Satyendra Nath Bose known for Bose Einstein Statistics, the fundamental particle boson, and the Bose Einstein Condensate. His mother is Bose’s youngest daughter.

Having been born and raised outside of India Falguni knew little about the contributions his famous grandfather until a July morning in 1995 when he awakened to see the front page of the New York Times proclaim that a prediction made by Albert Einstein based on Bose's work had been proven true, that particles following Bose Statistics (later called bosons coined by P.A.M. Dirac) when cooled to a low enough temperature (near absolute zero) transform into a new form of matter later called a Bose-Einstein Condensate. The discovery was heralded as the Holy Grail of Physics, and would revolutionize fields such as superconductivity, quantum computing, and lasers; helping to unlock the secrets of the quantum world!

But beyond Bose the scientist, Falguni became fascinated by Bose the man. His research has taken him across the world, speaking to dozens of people who knew Bose intimately, not just as a scientist, but also as a father, uncle, friend, guru, and of course mastermoshai. Bose was a polymath, whose thirst for knowledge may have been surpassed only by his passion for teaching, especially in the mother tongue. Bose the man had an immense impact on the lives of many everyday people, through his love of literature, music, and of course the Bangali penchant for endless hours of adda. 

Falguni shares his research as the publisher of the SN Bose Project, providing a platform for writers, filmmakers, journalists, and artists to share their stories about Professor Bose and his legacy. Falguni invites visitors, and welcomes comments on the articles, blogs, and stories at www.snbose.org. 

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Falguni Sarkar, a grandchild of Professor Satyendra Nath Bose, is flanked by the physicists Carl Wieman (right) and Eric Cornell (left) of JILA (formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Physics located at the University of Colorado Boulder (USA) and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), who together with Wolfgang Ketterle of MIT, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 for creating a Bose Einstein Condensate on June 5, 1995, what the New York Times in the next day's headlines called the Holy Grail of Physics. Using lasers in high performance laboratory conditions, a new form of matter, at just billionths of a degree above absolute zero, was created, a phenomenon Albert Einstein had predicted 70 years prior using Bose Einstein Statistics. Photo circa 2007 at the University of Colorado Boulder. ZZZPicture Credit Larry Harwood, UC Boulder.

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The SN Bose Project

The SN Bose Project is a labor of love by the extended family of Satyendra Nath Bose.

Led by grandson Falguni Sarkar, the Project brings together rarely seen letters, interviews, images and moving pictures to inform and educate people around the world about the contributions and life of National Professor (India) Satyendra Nath Bose. 

Information about the SN Bose Project is available on this website, which includes historical facts, as well as personal speculation, and voices from those that knew Bose, worked with him, or just spend time.

About this Website

Satyendra Nath Bose The Man Who Counted Light brings together writings, lectures, interviews and images of Satyendra Nath Bose to present an intimate portrait of this remarkable scientist, a veritable polymath, who, along with Albert Einstein pioneered the field of quantum statistics, and revolutionized our understanding of the quantum world. But ​

With the support, encouragement and research by his family, especially the family of Bose's eldest son Rathindranath Basu, Falguni is paying forward to the best of his ability the legacy of his grandfather, and the contribution he made in a significant period in the history of the twentieth century science.

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