In 1905, India’s air was filled with the throbbing pulse of rebellion, the cobblestone streets of Bengal dreaming of freedom and enlightenment. Science was no longer reserved for those brilliant white men in stiff wigs and a few titles in front of their name - through science it was possible to do things and improve them. At the forefront of this flame were two men, one of them an only son of a middle-class Bengali Kayastha family, and the other the fifth child of a poor shopkeeper. Their names were Satyendra Nath Bose and Meghnad Saha, who would pass on their legacy to the namesake bosons that structure our universe, theoretical Bose-Einstein condensate and statistics, and the Saha equation used by astrophysicists around the world.

Today on the Helyx Show, Chris examines how the paths of Meghnad Saha and Satyendra Nath Bose crossed and how both men revitalized India's scientific revolution and cemented their names in the history of science for the years to come.

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Sound Credits:
"Amar Sonar Bangla" sung by Sraboni Sen from the film Nirbashito

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Script, recording, and production by Chris Jung.