About
Jagadish Chandra Bose, born on 30 November 1858 in Bikrampur (present-day Bangladesh) and died on 23 November 1937 in Giridih (India), was a pioneering scientist. After studies at Cambridge and London, he became in 1885 the first Indian professor of physics at Presidency College, Calcutta. In 1895, he demonstrated wireless transmission of millimeter waves, before Marconi, and invented several devices, including the self-recovering coherer and the galena crystal detector. From 1900, he turned to biophysics and invented the crescograph to study plant responses. He founded the Bose Institute in 1917. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1920, he was knighted in 1917. He also authored the first Bengali science fiction story.
* 1858-11-28 — † 1937-11-23
Major works
- Response in the Living and Non-Living (1902)scientific monograph
- Plant Response as a Means of Physiological Investigation (1906)scientific monograph
- Physiology of the Ascent of Sap (1923)scientific monograph
- The Physiology of Photosynthesis (1924)scientific monograph
- The Nervous Mechanism of Plants (1926)scientific monograph
Key milestones
- 1895Demonstrates wireless transmission of millimeter waves in Calcutta, predating Marconi's public demonstrations.
- 1917Founds the Bose Institute in Calcutta, the first dedicated scientific research institute in India.
- 1920Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, the first Indian scientist to be elected for contributions to science.
Themes
Electromagnetic wave physicsPlant biophysicsScientific instrumentsScience and spiritualityBengali science fiction
Sources: catalogues.royalsociety.org · ieeexplore.ieee.org · physicstoday.aip.org