President Pratibha Patil will meet a group of Indian scientists at the prestigious CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva when she visits Switzerland end of this month,and invoke Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Boses contribution to the institution. Patil will be on a two-nation tour to Switzerland and Austria between September 30 and October 7. Sources said the President is very keen to visit the famous institute,which last week made a discovery which if proven true could upset Albert Einsteins Theory of Relativity. If independently verified,the measurement of subatomic neutrino particles travelling faster than the speed of light would prove that one of the foundations of modern physics,Theory of General Relativity,was wrong. There are many Indian scientists in this institute,and the President and her entourage are looking forward to meet them. not to forget the tremendous contribution of Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose towards this experiment, said a senior government official. In fact,of the three main past and present physicists behind the proton-smashing quantum physics experiment in Geneva,one of them is the Bose of the Higgs-boson experiment Satyendra Nath Bose. It is Bose after whom the sub-atomic particle boson is named. It is widely known in the scientific circles that the US $10 billion Large Hadron Collider experiment in Switzerland last week could not have happened without Bose and Einstein. Patil,who will be on a State visit to Switzerland from September 30 to October 4,will be accompanied by Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey for most part of the trip. In Switzerland,she will hold wide-ranging discussions with the Swiss President and other members of the Federal Council (Swiss Cabinet). She will unveil the bust of Rabindranath Tagore at the University of Lausanne on October 4 and witness the signing of a MoU to set up a Tagore Chair on Indian Studies between the university and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. In Austria from October 4 to 7,she will meet President Heinz Fischer and her engagements will include meetings with Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann and Speaker of Austrian Parliament Barbara Prammer. She will also go to Salzburg,which is the native place of world-famous composer Mozart,where a special concert would be organised in her honour. A business delegation is accompanying the President. She and her counterparts will address joint business forum in both Switzerland and Austria. In both countries,she will meet the Indian community.
