An unsung Indian hero was one of the two who dicovered the God Particle was truly forgotten. God Particle named by physicists as Higgs Boson gave due credits to British Physicist Peter Higgs who was one of the founders of the particle but the words 'Boson' which referred to our own renowned physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, after whom one of the two sub-atomic particle was named was totally negelected at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Meyrin near Geneva on Wednesday. This was a big blunder by the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the renowned physicists who gathered there, felt their sub-continent counterparts. An Indian effort was totally neglected in `God Particle' saga.
"I believe it is a deliberate omission," says P M Bhargava, founder director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology. "This is not the only such case." Top Indian scientists like Bhargava feel that it reflects a general lack of recognition for Indian scientists, as per a media reoprt.
Amidst thunderous applause Rolf Heuer, director of CERN unveiled the details of God particle to the scientists, yesterday. He said, “We have now found the missing cornerstone of particle physics. As a layman, I think we did it. We have a discovery. We have observed a new particle that is consistent with a Higgs boson.” CERN’s atom smasher, the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border, has been creating high-energy collisions of protons to investigate dark matter, anti-matter and the creation of the universe, which many theorise occurred in a massive explosion known as the Big Bang.
On the other hand, Bose an accomplice of the great Albert Einstein was instrumental in delivering the Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of Bose-Einstein condensate in the 1920s. With towering achievements in the sphere, it was but natural for him to be conferred with the Nobel Prize. However somehow the house of Sir Alfred Nobel failed to give him his due honours. As a consolation, his work on quantum mechanics was so crucial which led to modern day atomic indepth analysis, that the British Physicists named one of the subatomic particles after him. (With inputs from internet- AW AarKay)
