History of the Calcutta School of Physical Sciences

George Gamow’s famous book on the developments of physics in the first three decades of the twentieth century was titled Thirty Years that Shook Physics. While historians of science often debate whether a certain development in science qualifies to be called a ‘scientific revolution’ or not, one fact remains undisputed. If any scientific development after the European Renaissance can legitimately be called a scientific revolution, then the developments of physics around quantum theory and relativity in the early decades of the twentieth century constituted one such revolution.