PK Roy was a protege and lifelong friend of Satyendra Nath Bose. He did his PhD in particle physi... more PK Roy was a protege and lifelong friend of Satyendra Nath Bose. He did his PhD in particle physics under Abdus Salam, the future Nobel laureate, at Imperial College in London from 1957 to 2959. He was also a brilliant Marxist, but one who followed the Trotskyist rather than the dominant Stalinist line. He was slowly and painfully handicapped by a degenerative disease and died at age 50 from the effects of the misguided cure. This article traces his work in physics against the broader background of the university, the city, and the Bengali culture he so loved. This article originated as a short contribution to "CU Physics 100," a book of retrospective essays that Calcutta University published in early 2016 to mark the 100th anniversary of physics at the university.
PK Roy was a protege and lifelong friend of Satyendra Nath Bose. He did his PhD in particle physi... more PK Roy was a protege and lifelong friend of Satyendra Nath Bose. He did his PhD in particle physics under Abdus Salam, the future Nobel laureate, at Imperial College in London from 1957 to 2959. He was also a brilliant Marxist, but one who followed the Trotskyist rather than the dominant Stalinist line. He was slowly and painfully handicapped by a degenerative disease and died at age 50 from the effects of the misguided cure. This article traces his work in physics against the broader background of the university, the city, and the Bengali culture he so loved. This article originated as a short contribution to "CU Physics 100," a book of retrospective essays that Calcutta University published in early 2016 to mark the 100th anniversary of physics at the university.
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