Chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday asked students and teachers to come forward in contributing to advancement of science and knowledge.
鈥楽tudents and teachers should come forward in contributing to science and knowledge,鈥� he said while speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the 鈥楥entennial Celebration of the Bose-Einstein Statistics: A legacy of Dhaka鈥� at an auditorium in the city.
Professor Yunus said that the very tiny calm Dhaka city and green Ramna might not be brought back but the glory of Dhaka University could, of course, come back in the new independent Bangladesh.
鈥極n centenary of the Bose-Einstein Theory, we can say this with emphasis. Today, the student-teacher community has got back their freedom of thought and the practice of free thinking through revolution,鈥� he continued.
The chief adviser also stressed capacity building for contributing to world-science.
鈥楢nd this is achieved through everyday reading, research maintaining high expectation. The environment of Bose鈥檚 invention in 1924 was created in such a way. This environment will also be established in the same way today. There is no alternative to this.鈥�
CA Yunus said that the interim government was ready to bring necessary reforms in shaping suitable environment for science practice but demands and suggestions had to have to come from all the people concerned.
鈥業f we have trust in ourselves, we will be able to do so as Bose had trust in him, so being fully unacquainted, he wrote to Einstein.鈥�
Recalling the contribution of scientist Satyendra Nath Bose, he said that Bose became the part of science history in 1924 because of his Bose-Einstein Statistics.
鈥楢s a young professor, Satyendra Bose did this sitting at a room of Curzon Hall at Dhaka University, while the physicists around the world are celebrating the centenary of the Bose-Einstein Statistics due to its importance. But, the importance of this invention is different for us....through this, Bose has marked our university [DU] and our Dhaka city in the map of world science,鈥� he added.
The chief adviser welcomed the international scientists, who have been working on the Bose-Einstein theory, for joining the international conference in Dhaka.
Noting that the invention of Bose was still time relevant, he said that Bose sent his little article to Einstein in Germany and later Einstein added his idea to it and provided the article to a famous physics journal. Since then, that was Bose-Einstein theory.
The physics department of Dhaka University and Bose Centre for Advanced Study and Research in Natural Sciences, DU, jointly organised the two-day celebration.
Education adviser professor Wahiduddin Mahmud, DU vice-chancellor professor Niaz Ahmed Khan, and former professor at SNBNCBS of Kolkata Partha Ghose also spoke.
