In 1921, he joined as Reader of the Department of Physics of the recently founded University of Dhaka (in present-day Bangladesh). Along with Saha, Bose prepared the first book in English based on German and French translations of original papers on Einstein's special and general relativity in 1919.
From 1916 to 1921, he was a lecturer in the physics department of the Rajabazar Science College under University of Calcutta. He came in contact with teachers such as Jagadish Chandra Bose, Prafulla Chandra Ray and Naman Sharma who provided inspiration to aim high in life. Research career īose attended Hindu School in Calcutta, and later attended Presidency College, also in Calcutta, earning the highest marks at each institution, while fellow student and future astrophysicist Meghnad Saha came second. He was actively involved in running night schools that came to be known as the Working Men's Institute. He could play the esraj, an Indian musical instrument similar to a violin. Īs a polyglot, Bose was well versed in several languages such as Bengali, English, French, German and Sanskrit as well as the poetry of Lord Tennyson, Rabindranath Tagore and Kalidasa. When he died in 1974, he left behind his wife, two sons, and five daughters. They had nine children, two of whom died in early childhood. In 1914, at age 20, Satyendra Nath Bose married Ushabati Ghosh, the 11-year-old daughter of a prominent Calcutta physician. His father, Surendranath Bose, worked in the Engineering Department of the East Indian Railway Company. Quantum theory had just appeared on the horizon and important results had started pouring in. It was an exciting era in the history of scientific progress. Īfter completing his MSc, Bose joined the Science college, Calcutta University as a research scholar in 1916 and started his studies in the theory of relativity. His marks in the MSc examination created a new record in the annals of the University of Calcutta, which is yet to be surpassed. Then he joined Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee's newly formed Science College where he again stood first in the MSc mixed mathematics exam in 1915. He next joined the intermediate science course at the Presidency College, Calcutta, where his teachers included Jagadish Chandra Bose, Sarada Prasanna Das, and Prafulla Chandra Ray.īose received a Bachelor of Science in mixed mathematics from Presidency College, standing first in 1913. He passed his entrance examination ( matriculation) in 1909 and stood fifth in the order of merit. In the final year of school, he was admitted into the Hindu School. When his family moved to Goabagan, he was admitted into the New Indian School. His schooling began at the age of five, near his home. His ancestral home was in the village Bara Jagulia, in the district of Nadia, in the Bengal Presidency. He was the only son, with six sisters after him. Bose was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), the eldest of seven children in a Bengali Kayastha family.
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