Making of Modern Physics in Colonial India

Making of Modern Physics in Colonial India

Banerjee, Somaditya

Taylor & Francis Ltd

02/2022

220

Mole

Inglês

9780367494964

15 a 20 dias

408

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1. Introduction: Writing a History of Modern Science in South Asia

2. Local Visvajaneenata Cosmopolitanism, Bhadralok Culture and the Making of Satyendranath Bose

3. Satyendranath Bose and the Concept of Light Quantum

4. Colonial Modernity and Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman: Verifying the Light Quantum

5. Meghnad Saha: Applying the Light Quantum

6. Final Reflections on Bhadralok physics

Bibliography

Appendices

Appendix A: Satyendranath Bose's letter from Berlin to Jacqueline Eisenmann in 1926

Appendix B: Indian chemist Jnan Ghosh's letter to Saha in Bengali, and Satyendranath Bose's letter to Saha in Bengali

Appendix C: Satyendranath Bose's letter to Albert Einstein, June 4,1924

Appendix D: Einstein's postcard to Satyendranath Bose, July2, 1924

Appendix E: Einstein's postcard to Satyendranath Bose July 2, 1924, translated in English

Appendix F: Satyendranath Bose's third letter to Einstein, January 27, 1925

Appendix G: Hermann Mark letter of reference for Bose, May 9, 1926

Appendix H: Paul Langevin letter of reference for Bose, April 26, 1926
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Tamil Nadu;quantum physics;Young Man;cultural history;Raman Effect;Indian modernity;Calcutta University;Indian physicists;Indian Musical Instruments;modern physics;Prafulla Chandra Ray;Bagha Jatin;Colonial Administrations;Classical Wave Theory;Late Colonial India;South Asian History;Light Quantum Hypothesis;Light Quanta;Dacca University;Planck's Law;Common Language;Anushilan Samiti;Bohr's Correspondence Principle;Bose's Career;Compton Effect;Bose Einstein Statistics;Professorship Position;Raman's Work;Wave Particle Duality;Dispersion Theory