Jumbangla Desk: The interim government's chief advisor Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus said, our interim government is a product of revolution. So we are ready to undertake all necessary reforms and efforts to create suitable environment to contribute to world-science. Demands and suggestions should come from everyone dedicated to this work. We can do it if we believe in ourselves. Just as Satyendranath Bose had the confidence to write to Einstein despite being a complete stranger.
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He said this while addressing the opening ceremony of the conference titled 'Celebration of Centenary of Bose-Einstein Statistics: Legacy of Dhaka' in the capital yesterday . The Physics Department of Dhaka University and the Center for Advanced Study and Research in Natural Sciences, DU jointly organized the two-day festival. Muhammad Yunus said, through the July-August revolution, the student-teacher community has regained their freedom of thought and the practice of open mind. We must acquire the ability to contribute to world-science. It will be achieved through daily reading and research, keeping the aspirations high. He said that the atmosphere of Satyendranath Bose's discovery in 1924 will continue to develop in the same way. There is no alternative. We have to inculcate in the minds of the youth that we are the world. We are celebrating the centenary of that desire. Referring to Scientist Satyendranath Bose as the brightest star in the history of Bangladesh, Professor Yunus said, we have come to celebrate the centenary of the greatest contribution of one of the brightest stars in the history of our country and university. Who in 1924 became part of science history for his discovery of Bose-Einstein quantum statistics. And he did it as a young professor at our Dhaka University sitting in a room in Curzon Hall, which is still alive with physics student-teachers.
Dr. Yunus said, due to the importance of his discovery, physicists from different countries of the world are celebrating this centenary. But for us the meaning of this discovery is different. Physicists say it was a major addition to the quantum theory that revolutionized physics at that point in the 20th century. Through this, Bose brilliantly marked our university, our city of Dhaka on the world-science map. Professor Yunus said, today when we are trying to build the country anew through an all-round revolution of students, want to re-establish the university in its proper place of practice, then what could be more appropriate than the centenary of Bose's discovery to celebrate as a visionary of change? What else can be a motivation for the heroes of our revolution or a greater memory of glory?
He said, I have left the year 1924 far behind. Has Bose's discovery faded over time? Physicists say not at all. The Bose-Einstein Condensate was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001 for proof of this discovery's prediction. Research on this is ongoing.
The Chief Adviser said, Satyendranath Bose is arguing for the introduction of Bengali language at all levels of education, especially in higher science education, writing books in Bengali, bringing out magazines, using Bengali in his teaching. Literary lovers of the city have established regular meetings with some of the culture lovers. In the fifties, the Nobel laureate Dr. Yunus said, when I was a student of Dhaka University in the late fifties, Basu's Dhaka was more similar to Dhaka. So I can imagine the atmosphere, of Dhaka and Dhaka University. That quiet little town, that green Ramana can't be brought back. But we can definitely bring back that glorious Dhaka University in today's independent Bangladesh. We want to emphasize this on the centenary of the Bose-Einstein theory.