Debendra Mohan Bose (1885-1975)-An Eminent Physicist of India

Debendra Mohan Bose was one of the leading experimental physicists of India in the 20th century. He did notable work with Wilson cloud chambers, successfully photographing the recoil tracks of radioactive nuclei during the process of alpha-emission. He earned international eminence for his contributions in the field of simple and complex compounds containing paramagnetic and rare-earth ions and for the determination of the mass of μ-mesons using the photographic emulsion method. He was also responsible for initiation of research in India in the areas of cosmic rays, artificial radioactivity and neutron physics. He was a member of the committee which recommended the formation of the Atomic Energy Commission in India. He was also a member of the CSIR committee which planned the setting up of the National Physical Laboratory and the National Chemical Laboratory.