The Quantum Indians is a film by Raja Choudhury that tells the compelling story of Satyendra Nath Bose, C.V. Raman and Meghnad Saha.
In the early part of the 20th century and over 20 years before India’s independence, three remarkable Indian scientists revolutionized the worlds of Physics and Science. Satyendra Nath Bose, C.V.Raman and Meghnad Saha gave the world three remarkable discoveries and theories that would change Physics and India forever. Today, the Bose-Einstein Statistic, Condensate and Bosons, The Raman Effect and The Saha Equation are part of the edifice of modern Physics and have been responsible for some major breakthroughs in Quantum Physics and Astrophysics in the 20th and 21st centuries including the discovery of the Higgs Boson Particle, the splitting of light and the high temperature ionization of elements. All 3 scientists taught initially at the University of Calcutta, all went on to become leading Indian scientists and teachers, all became members of the Royal Society and one of them was the recipient India’s only Nobel Prize for Science.
“The Quantum Indians” is an important, compelling and timely International documentary film that explores how these three brilliant Indian minds emerged out of the colonial shackles of British rule and racial prejudices to have such an impact on the World of Science. It is important for Indians everywhere to celebrate their accomplishments and for the World to take notice once again of the Indian contribution to Science. In this 52-minute film, audiences will explore their individual biographies, their collective impact on the world of physics and their legacy in Indian science and world history. By using their own words, archival imagery and footage, interviews with leading Indian scientists and historians and animated visualizations using cutting edge graphics and CGI to demonstrate their their theories, we will construct a complete picture of these 3 remarkable men.
The Quantum Indians is written and directed by filmmaker Raja Choudhury and produced by Rajiv Mehrotra for PSBT and the Public Diplomacy Division of the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India.
This documentary won the prestigious National Film Award for the best educational film in 2013 in India. President Shri Pranab Mukharjee gave away this award in a glittering ceremony on 3rd May 2014. It is an award for an extremely efficient and precise analysis of the contributions of three renowned scientists in a manner that not only educates today's generation but also provides insights into complex scientific phenomena in an accessible manner. At the turn of the 20th century, the world was witnessing a renaissance in the area of quantum physics through the work of great scientists such as Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford or Neils Bohr. Unknown to the world, three Indian scientists were also making significant contributions to the quantum world with revolutionary deductions, interpretations and theories.
Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose devised a statistical theory of counting photons - a revelation even to Albert Einstein -- that paved the way for the two great minds to work in tandem in formulating fundamental theories as the Bose-Einstein Statistics and Bose-Einstein Condensate. Boson, the class of particles that obey Bose-Einstein statistics, was named after Dr. S. N. Bose. Sir C. V. Raman gave the world what is known as the Raman effect, which redefined how we see light and colour. Another contemporary, Dr. Meghnad Saha produced an equation that explained stellar radiation and is regarded as one of the fathers of modern astrophysics. All the three scientists started their careers at the Calcutta University, became Fellows of the Royal Society, and Raman was the first and only Indian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for physics.
The film is a tribute to the three exemplary minds, the significance of whose contributions was of vital importance during that time, and even today with great strides being made in quantum physics, fibre optics, nuclear science or astrophysics. They were not only great scientists, but were rooted to the social and political realities of the time and dedicated their lives to modern science in India. Along with being institutions by themselves, they built stellar institutions in the country that inspired many great scientists of the following generations.
In the early part of the 20th century and over 20 years before India’s independence, three remarkable Indian scientists revolutionized the worlds of Physics and Science. Satyendra Nath Bose, C.V.Raman and Meghnad Saha gave the world three remarkable discoveries and theories that would change Physics and India forever. Today, the Bose-Einstein Statistic, Condensate and Bosons, The Raman Effect and The Saha Equation are part of the edifice of modern Physics and have been responsible for some major breakthroughs in Quantum Physics and Astrophysics in the 20th and 21st centuries including the discovery of the Higgs Boson Particle, the splitting of light and the high temperature ionization of elements. All 3 scientists taught initially at the University of Calcutta, all went on to become leading Indian scientists and teachers, all became members of the Royal Society and one of them was the recipient India’s only Nobel Prize for Science.
“The Quantum Indians” is an important, compelling and timely International documentary film that explores how these three brilliant Indian minds emerged out of the colonial shackles of British rule and racial prejudices to have such an impact on the World of Science. It is important for Indians everywhere to celebrate their accomplishments and for the World to take notice once again of the Indian contribution to Science. In this 52-minute film, audiences will explore their individual biographies, their collective impact on the world of physics and their legacy in Indian science and world history. By using their own words, archival imagery and footage, interviews with leading Indian scientists and historians and animated visualizations using cutting edge graphics and CGI to demonstrate their their theories, we will construct a complete picture of these 3 remarkable men.
The Quantum Indians is written and directed by filmmaker Raja Choudhury and produced by Rajiv Mehrotra for PSBT and the Public Diplomacy Division of the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India.
This documentary won the prestigious National Film Award for the best educational film in 2013 in India. President Shri Pranab Mukharjee gave away this award in a glittering ceremony on 3rd May 2014. It is an award for an extremely efficient and precise analysis of the contributions of three renowned scientists in a manner that not only educates today's generation but also provides insights into complex scientific phenomena in an accessible manner. At the turn of the 20th century, the world was witnessing a renaissance in the area of quantum physics through the work of great scientists such as Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford or Neils Bohr. Unknown to the world, three Indian scientists were also making significant contributions to the quantum world with revolutionary deductions, interpretations and theories.
Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose devised a statistical theory of counting photons - a revelation even to Albert Einstein -- that paved the way for the two great minds to work in tandem in formulating fundamental theories as the Bose-Einstein Statistics and Bose-Einstein Condensate. Boson, the class of particles that obey Bose-Einstein statistics, was named after Dr. S. N. Bose. Sir C. V. Raman gave the world what is known as the Raman effect, which redefined how we see light and colour. Another contemporary, Dr. Meghnad Saha produced an equation that explained stellar radiation and is regarded as one of the fathers of modern astrophysics. All the three scientists started their careers at the Calcutta University, became Fellows of the Royal Society, and Raman was the first and only Indian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for physics.
The film is a tribute to the three exemplary minds, the significance of whose contributions was of vital importance during that time, and even today with great strides being made in quantum physics, fibre optics, nuclear science or astrophysics. They were not only great scientists, but were rooted to the social and political realities of the time and dedicated their lives to modern science in India. Along with being institutions by themselves, they built stellar institutions in the country that inspired many great scientists of the following generations.
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