Acharya Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু Born 30 November 1858 Bikrampur, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Bikrampur, Dhaka, Bangladesh) Died 23 November 1937 (aged 78) Giridih, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Giridih, Jharkhand, India) Residence Kolkata, Bengal Presidency, British India Nationality British Indian Fields Physics, Biophysics, Biology, Botany, Archaeology, Bengali Literature, Bengali Science Fiction Institutions University of Calcutta University of Cambridge University of London Alma mater St. Xaviers College, Calcutta Christs College, Cambridge Academic advisors John Strutt (Rayleigh) Notable students Satyendra Nath Bose, Meghnad Saha Known for Millimetre waves Radio Crescograph Contributions to Plant biology Notable awards Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) (1903) Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) (1911) Knight Bachelor (1917) Acharya Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, CSI, CIE, FRS (/boʊs/; Bengali: জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু; 30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist, as well as an early writer of science fiction. He pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics, made very significant contributions to plant science, and laid the foundations of experimental science in the Indian subcontinent. IEEE named him one of the fathers of radio science. He is also considered the father of Bengali science fiction. He also invented the crescograph. A crater on the moon has been named in his honour. Born in Bikrampur (present day Munshiganj District near Dhaka in Bangladesh) during the British Raj, Bose graduated from St. Xaviers College, Calcutta. He then went to the University of London to study medicine, but could not pursue studies in medicine due to health problems. Instead, he conducted his research with the Nobel Laureate Lord Rayleigh at Cambridge and returned to India. He then joined the Presidency College of University of Calcutta as a Professor of Physics. There, despite racial discrimination and a lack of funding and equipment, Bose carried on his scientific research. He made remarkable progress in his research of remote wireless signalling and was the first to use semiconductor junctions to detect radio signals. However, instead of trying to gain commercial benefit from this invention, Bose made his inventions public in order to allow others to further develop his research. Bose subsequently made a number of pioneering discoveries in plant physiology. He used his own invention, the crescograph, to measure plant response to various stimuli, and thereby scientifically proved parallelism between animal and plant tissues. Although Bose filed for a patent for one of his inventions due to peer pressure, his reluctance to any form of patenting was well known. To facilitate his research, he constructed automatic recorders capable of registering extremely slight movements; these instruments produced some striking results, such as Boses demonstration of an apparent power of feeling in plants, exemplified by the quivering of injured plants. His books include Response in the Living and Non-Living (1902) and The Nervous Mechanism of Plants (1926)
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