Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) was an Indian physicist and botanist. He pioneered radio and microwave optics, made significant contributions to plant science, and pioneered experimental science in India.
Born in Mymensingh, Bengal, now in Bangladesh, Bose attended St Xavier’s, a Jesuit College in Calcutta. Subsequently, he went to London to study medicine but transferred to Cambridge on a scholarship and graduated in natural science in 1884. He returned to Calcutta, where he was appointed Professor of Physics at Presidency College.
Bose became known for his study of electric waves, their polarization, and reflection. He invented a sensitive apparatus to demonstrate plant reactions. His experiments showed the sensitivity and growth of plants. He also measured the electrical forces released in the death-spasms of vegetables.
Bose founded the Bose Research Institute in Calcutta for physical and biological sciences in 1917, was knighted in the same year, and became the first Indian physicist to be elected Fellow of the Royal Society (1920.)
Bose’s books include Response in the Living and Non-Living (1902) and The Nervous Mechanism of Plants (1926.)
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The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.
—Jagadish Chandra Bose
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