Bose & bosons
Many a great person walked on this planet: in own life time not all liked nor praised them. But they kept doing what they had to do and eventually passed in to annals of time. Posterity barely remembers or does it matter to to that man who left whether history remembers him or not?
But the moment & space that they lived and performed belonged to them and these great individuals must have experienced the greatest reward of joy while playing at the frontiers of knowledge at that time and to their competence doing what they wanted to do and seeing for themselves the play of the natural forces.
True knowledge seekers are happy by by own pursuit of knowledge and hardly care for any recognition or reward. They are sufficiently evolved within, that they only seek satisfying company of similar noble persona to interact and nothing more!
The reward or recognition by society is actually an act of gaining reflected glory from the work of such great thinkers.
Bose appears to be a grand soul who rejoiced himself contemplating and uncovering deep secrets of working of the universe and that "ananda" is his alone and no other reward can make him happier.
More than Nobel Prize, he has been made immortal by the scientists naming the equations governing the behaviour of such class of particles after him & Einstein.
It is unfair to attach any nationality for such persons. They are children of the world, in my opinion.
In a world with every sunset and sunrise, a human loses one precious day of time of his limited time granted on the planet, while all normal humans are very busy doing supposedly important work of earning money to eat, drink and sleep, it is so remarkable that persons like Bose or Ramanujam or Raman with nothing but the mind & a white paper as resource, contributed to create milestones in progress of human knowledge.
It is amazing for me!
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