Two Famous Bengali Scientists-Some Personal Memories

An account of the author's personal encounters with Satyen Bose and P C Mahalanobis, whose birth centenary falls this year.
THIS year marks the birth centenary of three famous Bengali scientists, Meghnad Saha, Satyen Bose' and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, and has occasioned many types of writings about them, 1 had the opportunity of seeing Bose and Mahalanobis from close quarters for some time. Saha I had seen from a distance only once in 1939 (or 1940?) when he was the chief guest in the annual re-union dinner of the Dhaka Hall of the Dhaka University.