There were celebrations at 22,Ishwar Mill Lane near Scottish Church Collegiate School when the discovery of a new subatomic particle,possibly the Higgs boson or God particle considered crucial to understanding how the universe is built,was announced at CERN in Geneva on Wednesday. The house in old North Kolkata locality is where Satyendra Nath Bose the Bengali physicist from whose last name the word boson in Higgs boson is derived lived. Boses work with Albert Einstein in the early 1920s laid the foundation for the discovery of God particle. Boses eldest son Rathindranath Bose,79,says: We are very excited with my fathers contribution to the discovery of God particle. In 1925,he had gone to Germany and met Einstein. Though he did not talk much about it with us (sons) later,it seemed he was very excited after meeting him. Though Rathindranath feels Bose should have been awarded the Nobel Prize,he consoles himself with the inspiring words of German scientist and Nobel Prize winner Professor Wolfgang Ketterle,who visited the Bose house in the early 20s. Ketterle told Satyen Bose that many people receive Nobel prize,but not all of them are remembered by the people. None of Boses two sons and five daughters have charted their careers in scientific research. His sons Ramendranath and Rathindranath Bose became engineers and the daughters are homemakers.
