A portrait of Indian scientist Satyendranath Bose, is displayed at the Bangiya Vigyan Parishad or the Bengal Science Society founded by Bose in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. While much of the world was celebrating the international cooperation that led to last week's breakthrough in identifying the existence of the Higgs boson particle, many in India were smarting over what they saw as a slight against one of their greatest scientists. Media covering the story gave lots of credit to British physicist Peter Higgs for theorizing the elusive subatomic "God particle," but little was said about Satyendranath Bose, the Indian after whom the boson is named. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)The boson is named in honor of the Kolkata-born scientist's work in the 1920s with Albert Einstein in defining one of two basic classes of subatomic particles. The work describes subatomic particles that carry force and can occupy the same space if in the same state â€" such as in a la!
ser beam. All particles that follow such behavior, including the Higgs as well as photons, gravitons and others, are called bosons.<br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g45TaVkiWEWQwEIUSrEuD9Rab5bw?docId%3D5d6d64f5fa734ea0bb6b0c29adac18d0
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