Mr. Bose has already had his name appended to a (or rather a group of particles). A Boson is :
In particle physics, bosons is a subatomic particle with integer spin (i.e., angular momentum in quantum-mechanical units of 0, 1, etc.) that is governed by Bose-Einstein statistics. The name boson is derived from the surname of the Indian physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose, a contemporary of the German physicist Albert Einstein. Bosons include mesons (e.g., pions and kaons), nuclei of even mass number (e.g., helium-4), and the particles required to embody the fields of quantum field theory (e.g., photons and gluons). Bosons differ significantly from a group of subatomic particles known as fermions in that there is no limit to the number that can occupy the same quantum state. This behaviour gives rise, for example, to the remarkable properties of helium-4 when it is cooled to become a superfluid.
The main reason that Bose's name isn't as widely known as Higgs' is that Higgs made a huge contribution by developing the idea of the Higgs field. Bose just defined a set of already known particles. His contribution was significant, but not as much as the Higgs field/Boson. This Higgs Boson of course is another type of Boson, not an entirely new field/particle.
Bill Gill
