RADIATION PHYSICS RESEARCH IN BOSE INSTITUTE- REMINISCENCES OF AN EX-WORKER

摘要

Acharya Debendra Mohan Bose was for a time associated with Dr. C.T.R. Wilson when the latter was trying to develop the cloud chamber technique. Later Bose used a cloud chamber for accurate measurement of ranges of α-particle emitted by a number of radioactive nuclei. While working in Germany as an interned scientist during the first world war, Bose photographed what is now regarded as the first record of a nuclear reaction occurring in a cloud chamber. Bose maintained an active interest in nuclear physics throughout his life and it is no wonder, therefore, that when he took over the Directorship of Bose Institute, investigations in radiation physics became one of the important lines of research pursued in the Institute.