Partha Ghose
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Partha Ghose, born 1939, is an India
n physicist
, author
, anchorperson and professor
at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
in Calcutta.
Partha Ghose is quoted as one of India's best known popularizers of modern science.
Together with K. Bagchi, Partha Ghose received the NCSTC's National Award for the Best Science and Technology coverage in the Mass Media in the period 1986-1990.
Ghose has written scientific articles and scholarly books on physics as well as the books Riddles in a Teacup and Solar Eclipse: The Celestial diamond on popular science
. He is anchorperson in the popular shows Quest and Eureka.
He is professor at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Calcutta.
His recent work Testing Quantum Mechanics on New Ground covers advances in experimental tests of quantum theory
, some of which had been limited to thought experiment
s some years earlier but became accessible to experiment in the course of technological progress.
His work on Bohmian trajectories of photon
s, in which he demonstrated trajectories that could be ascribed also to photons in the approach of the De Broglie–Bohm theory, formed the basis for a ccomparison of these trajectories from those that were later observed experimentally with weak measurement
s.
Other:
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n physicist
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
, author
Author
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, anchorperson and professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences is an autonomous research institute under Department of Science and Technology of Government of India, located in Salt Lake, Kolkata. Named after scientist Satyendra Nath Bose, this institution was established in 1986.Students of this institute can...
in Calcutta.
Partha Ghose is quoted as one of India's best known popularizers of modern science.
Together with K. Bagchi, Partha Ghose received the NCSTC's National Award for the Best Science and Technology coverage in the Mass Media in the period 1986-1990.
Ghose has written scientific articles and scholarly books on physics as well as the books Riddles in a Teacup and Solar Eclipse: The Celestial diamond on popular science
Popular science
Popular science, sometimes called literature of science, is interpretation of science intended for a general audience. While science journalism focuses on recent scientific developments, popular science is broad-ranging, often written by scientists as well as journalists, and is presented in many...
. He is anchorperson in the popular shows Quest and Eureka.
He is professor at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Calcutta.
His recent work Testing Quantum Mechanics on New Ground covers advances in experimental tests of quantum theory
Quantum theory
Quantum theory may mean:In science:*Quantum mechanics: a subset of quantum physics explaining the physical behaviours at atomic and sub-atomic levels*Old quantum theory under the Bohr model...
, some of which had been limited to thought experiment
Thought experiment
A thought experiment or Gedankenexperiment considers some hypothesis, theory, or principle for the purpose of thinking through its consequences...
s some years earlier but became accessible to experiment in the course of technological progress.
His work on Bohmian trajectories of photon
Photon
In physics, a photon is an elementary particle, the quantum of the electromagnetic interaction and the basic unit of light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation. It is also the force carrier for the electromagnetic force...
s, in which he demonstrated trajectories that could be ascribed also to photons in the approach of the De Broglie–Bohm theory, formed the basis for a ccomparison of these trajectories from those that were later observed experimentally with weak measurement
Weak measurement
Weak measurements are a type of quantum measurement, where the measured system is very weakly coupled to the measuring device. After the measurement the measuring device pointer is shifted by what is called the "weak value". So that a pointer initially pointing at zero before the measurement would...
s.
Publications
Books- Partha Ghose (ed.): Materialism & Immaterialism in India & the West: Varying Vistas (History of Science Philosophy & Culture in Indian Civilzation), Munshirm Manoharlal Pub Pvt Ltd, September, 2010, ISBN 978-8187586425
- Partha Ghose: Testing Quantum Mechanics on new Ground, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0521026598
- Cosmic Quest, Thema Books, 2000, ISBN 978-8186017289
- The Celestial Diamond, HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt. Ltd. (1996), ISBN 978-8172232375
- J. C. Pati, J. Maharana, Partha Ghose: Particle Physics and Cosmology at the Interface, Puri, India 1-17 January 1993, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 1995, ISBN 978-981-02-2452-3
- Amitava Datta, Partha Ghose, A. Raychaudhuri: Particle phenomenology in the 90's: Workshop on High Energy Phenomenology II, 2-15 January 1991, Calcutta, India, World Scientific, 1992, ISBN 978-9810206994
- Partha Ghose, Dipankar HomeDipankar HomeDipankar Home is an Indian theoretical physicist at the Bose Institute, Kolkata, India. He works on the fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics, including quantum entanglement and Quantum communication...
: Riddles in your teacup: 100 science puzzles from everyday life, illustrated by Suparno Chaudhuri, Rupa 1990 - Dilip Kumar Sinha, Partha Ghose: Solitons and nonlinear systems, South Asian Publishers, 1986
Other:
- Partha Ghose: The Salam–Weinberg model and Scenarios of Unification, In Pradip Kumar Sengupta (ed.): History Of Science And Philosophy Of Science: A Historical Perspective Of The Evolution Of Ideas In Science, Pearson Longman, p. 277–300, 2010, ISBN 978-81-317-1930-5
- Partha Ghose, Manoj K. Samal, Animesh Datta: Bohmian picture of Rydberg atomRydberg atomthumb|right|300px|Figure 1: Energy levels in atomic [[lithium]] showing the Rydberg series of the lowest 3 values of [[Angular momentum#Angular momentum in quantum mechanics|orbital angular momentum]] converging on the first ionization energy....
s, Physics Letters A, 322, 277-281, (2004) - Partha Ghose, Manoj K. Samal, Animesh Datta: Klein paradoxKlein paradoxIn 1929, physicist Oskar Klein obtained a surprising result by applying the Dirac equation to the familiar problem of electron scattering from a potential barrier. In nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, electron tunneling into a barrier is observed, with exponential damping...
in bosons, Physics Letters A, 315, 23-27, (2003) - Partha Ghose, A.S. Majumdar, S. Guhab, J. Sau: Bohmian trajectories for photons, Physics Letters A 290 (2001), pp. 205–213, 10 November 2001
- Partha Ghose: A Continuous Transition Between Quantum and Classical Mechanics (I), quant-ph/0104104v2 (submitted 20. April 2001, version of 15 February 2002)
- Partha Ghose: An Experiment to Distinguish Between de Broglie-Bohm and Standard Quantum Mechanics, PRAMANA Journal of Physics, Indian Academy of Sciences, vol. 56, no. 2–3, February/March 2001, pp. 211–215 (quant-ph/0003037v3)
- Partha Ghose: Relativistic quantum mechanics of spin-0 and spin-1 bosons. In: Foundations of physics , ISSN 1572-9516, Vol. 26 (11. 1996), p. 1441-1455, 1996
- Partha Ghose, Dipankar Home: The two-prism experiment and wave-particle duality of light. In: Foundations of physics, ISSN 1572-9516, Vol. 26 (7. 1996), p. 943-953, 1996
- Partha Ghose, Dipankar Home: An analysis of the Aharonov-Anandan-Vaidman model. In: Foundations of physics, ISSN 1572-9516, Vol. 25 (7. 1995), p. 1105-1109, 1995
- Partha Ghosea, Dipankar Home: On boson trajectories in the Bohm model, Physics Letters A, vol. 191, no. 5-6, 22. August 1994, pp. 362-364, DOI: 10.1016/0375-9601(94)90786-2 (abstract)
- Partha Ghose, Dipankar Home, M. N. Sinha Roy: Relativistic quantum mechanics of bosons, Physics Letters A, vol. 183, no. 4, December 1993, pp. 267-271, DOI: 10.1016/0375-9601(93)90453-7 (Errata: Physics Letters A, vol. 188, no. 4-6, 30. May 1994, p. 402, DOI:10.1016/0375-9601(94)90486-3)
- Partha Ghose, Dipankar Home: Wave-particle duality of single-photon states. In: Foundations of physics , ISSN 1572-9516, Vol. 22 (12. 1992), p. 1435-1447, 1992
- P. Ghose, D. Home: Manifestly Lorentz Covariant Formulation of the EPR Problem using the Tomonaga-Schwinger Formalism, Physical Review A vol. 43, pp. 6382, 1991
- Amitava Datta, Jishnu Dey, Mira Dey, Partha Ghose: Quark masses in a BCS-like approach using
potentials. In: The European physical journal, ISSN 1434-6052, vol. 19, (2. 1983), pp. 179-187, 1983 - Partha Ghose, D. Kumbhakar: Kaon and τ-decay rates in QCD. In: The European physical journal , ISSN 1434-6052, Vol. 8 (1. 1981), p. 49-52, 1981
External links
- Riddles in your teacup: 100 science puzzles from everyday life, book review with questions list