A woman and a child walk past the the No. 22, Iswar Mil Lane house where Indian scientist Satyendranath Bose, lived 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)
July 10, 2012 - 5:52 AM
NEW DELHI - Indians are upset over what they see as a global snub against a scientist whose work underlies the recent Higgs boson particle breakthrough — though he was never directly involved.
Last week's announcement that scientists had all but proven the existence of the elusive subatomic particle led most media to run stories answering Who is Higgs? and What is a "boson"?
Few linked Calcutta-born physicist Satyendranath Bose beyond mentioning that boson particles are named for his 1920s work with Albert Einstein defining them as one of two basic classes of subatomic particles.
For India, it was seen as a snub too big to ignore.
The government issued a lengthy statement calling him "a forgotten hero." Newspapers ran editorials lamenting yet another case of perceived snub against Indians.
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