In 1924 an Indian physicist called Satyendra Nath Bose wrote to Albert Einstein saying he had solved a problem in quantum physics that had stumped the great man. One century on, Robert P Crease and Gino Elia explain how the correspondence led to the notion of Bose–Einstein condensation and why it revealed the power of diverse thinking
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