An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Any of a class of particles (such as the → photon, → pion, or → alpha particle) that have zero or integral → spin and do not obey
the → Pauli exclusion principle. The energy distribution of bosons is described by → Bose-Einstein statistics. See also: → gauge boson, → Higgs boson, → W boson, → Z boson, → intermediate boson.

Etymology (EN): Boson, in honor of the Indian-American physicist Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974).