English
boson
From Bose + -on.
The story
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.disputed Scholars disagree here; the competing view is quoted as the source gives it.
Today it means
noun A particle with totally symmetric composite quantum states, which exempts them from the Pauli exclusion principle, and that hence obeys Bose-Einstein statistics. They have integer spin. Among them are many elementary particles, and some (gauge bosons) are known to carry the fundamental forces.
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Etymograph / boson