7 Nobel prizes the British discredited— and the 4 trillion-dollar industries it built
Support the channel - https://ko-fi.com/withronny Seven Bengali scientists between 1876 and 1924 wrote the foundational papers behind modern pharma, wireless, spectroscopy, and quantum computing. Six were erased by the British scientific establishment. The seventh, a poet, got the only Nobel that ever made it back to Bengal — and what he did with the prize money is the twist that ends this video. Mahendralal Sircar founded India's first science institute in 1876 after the Royal Society dismissed his methods as "unfamiliar." Prafulla Chandra Ray synthesised mercurous nitrite in 1896. Upendranath Brahmachari cured kala-azar in 1922 and saved half a million lives. Meghnad Saha's 1920 ionisation equation is running on the James Webb Space Telescope right now. J.C. Bose patented the semiconductor diode in 1904 — Marconi got the 1909 Nobel. S.N. Bose invented bosonic statistics in 1924; seven subsequent Nobels were awarded for work using his framework. Rabindranath Tagore got the 1913 Literature Nobel and spent the money funding the others. In 1924, a young physics lecturer in Dhaka sent a groundbreaking four-page letter to Albert Einstein, fundamentally shaping modern physics. This video explores this pivotal moment in science history, detailing how Einstein's swift recognition and translation propelled a new understanding of physics topics. It's a compelling piece of science education that sheds light on the origins of quantum physics.
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