boson

bo·son

UK/ˈbəʊ.zɒn/ US/ˈboʊ.zɑn/ rare obsolete

noun

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

Origin

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.

Related words

Broader terms

particle

Narrower terms

gauge boson
meson

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