boson

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. noun any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons

Etymology

From Bose + -on. Named after Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974); coined by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1945 in a lecture titled Developments in Atomic Theory.

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