{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Incredible India Travel | Social Impact & Culture Tours","title":"The Building in Kolkata That Produced Six Scientists Who Changed the World","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1368,"description":"There is a building on College Street in Kolkata.It was built in 1875. Its architecture is the confident Victorian Gothic of a colonial institution that expected to last. Tall windows. High ceilings. A sweeping central staircase. A laboratory called the Baker Laboratory that became one of the most productive scientific research spaces in Asia.Its name is Presidency College. And the list of people who studied and taught within its walls across a period of approximately seventy years is so extraordinary that if you compiled it without knowing it was true you would be accused of making it up.Jagadish Chandra Bose. The man who proved that plants have feelings and who transmitted the world's first wireless signal before Marconi, teaching in its laboratories.Prafulla Chandra Ray. The chemist who founded the Indian pharmaceutical industry and whose students would reshape modern physics, teaching beside him.Satyendra Nath Bose. The physicist whose paper Albert Einstein personally translated into German and whose name is now attached to the most fundamental class of particles in the universe, studying in its classrooms.Meghnad Saha. The astrophysicist whose equation explaining the chemical composition of stars transformed our understanding of the cosmos, studying beside Bose in the same year.CV Raman. The physicist who discovered the effect that bears his name and won India its first Nobel Prize in science, conducting his experiments in its Baker Laboratory.Amartya Sen. The economist whose work on poverty and human development won the Nobel Prize in Economics and whose name was given to him by Rabindranath Tagore, studying in its economics department decades later.Six individuals. One building. Physics. Chemistry. Astrophysics. The God Particle. The Raman Effect. The Nobel Prize for Economics.And almost no international tourist who visits Kolkata knows this building exists.This episode is the complete story of the most extraordinary concentration of scientific genius in...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/eWrZ3doNBWF40S0S56sC17IDwfhLRtHiDkqKOrNCvtA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85Yjg5/Y2Q3ODM2NzZkOTcz/NGJiMWMwMDEzMTFl/YjI3NC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}