boson

noun

: a particle (such as a photon or meson) whose spin quantum number is zero or an integral number compare fermion
bosonic adjective

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Working independently in 1926, Fermi and Dirac both figured out what was going wrong: Electrons are not bosons. Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2025 One history might be like the pathway Ghosh was asked to study, in which two W bosons fuse to form a Higgs boson before the Higgs boson splits into two Z bosons. Matt Von Hippel, ArsTechnica, 23 June 2025 Groups of bosons will happily all do exactly the same thing. Shalma Wegsman, Wired News, 25 May 2025 This ability comes down to the fact that when two bosons swap places, their quantum state stays the same. Shalma Wegsman, Wired News, 25 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for boson

Word History

Etymology

Satyendranath Bose †1974 Indian physicist + -on entry 2

First Known Use

1947, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of boson was in 1947

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“Boson.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boson. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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