Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, was an Indian physicist, botanist, and biophysicist, and today (November 23) is his death anniversary. He is considered the pioneer and father of Bengali science fiction.'
Along with this, he also laid the foundations of experimental science in the Indian subcontinent, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) named him one of the fathers of radio science.
He also worked as a physics professor at Presidency College in Kolkata, where he made several plant physiology discoveries.
Here are some interesting facts about Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose:
He was born on November 30, 1858, and worked as a biologist, physicist, botanist, and an early writer of science fiction.
He developed an interest in nature after he learned the Bengali language, as his father sent him to a vernacular school where he listened fascinated by stories of birds, animals, and marine creatures. which perhaps made him keenly interested in working on it.
He was denied access to labs because of his race; he faced racial discrimination during his time as a professor at the University of Calcutta. At the time he served as a professor, the British ruled India and denied him access to laboratories due to his race.
He played a significant role in the development of modern radio and sonic technology. He is credited with inventing the first form of wireless communication.
Bose also invented the crescograph, which is a device that allows researchers and scientists to discover how plans get affected by the seasons and external stimuli. Once Bose had written "feel pain and understand affection" just like humans.
To honour his contributions in the field of wireless telecommunications, he was named for an impact crater on the far side of the Moon. The Bose crater has a diameter of 91 km and is located near Crater Bhabha.
Bose established an institute named "Bose Institute" on November 30, 1917, in Kolkata. It was Asis's first modern research center, built for interdisciplinary research and initially dedicated to plant research.
In 1896, he published Niruddesher Kahini, Bengali's first work of science fiction. He referred to this as the "butterfly effect," or the sensitive dependence on initial conditions.
Bose was the first Asian to be awarded a US patent. In 1904, he was awarded a patent for his invention of a detector for electrical disturbances.
Bose was also the first person to study the action of microwaves in plant tissue, where he constructed an automatic recorder that documented the extremely tiny actions in plants and analysed them as the power of feeling.
