Somaditya Banerjee

The Making of Modern Physics in Colonial India

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Produktbeschreibung

This monograph offers a cultural history of the development of physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on Indian physicists Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974), Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) and Meghnad Saha (1893-1956).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781472465535
• ISBN-10: 1472465539
• Artikelnr.: 69947810

Autorenporträt

Somaditya Banerjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy at Austin Peay State University, Tennessee.

Inhaltsangabe

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