| Name
/ Title |
JAGDISH
Chandra BOSE |
| Date of
Birth |
November 30, 1858 |
| Date of
Death |
November 23, 1937 |
| Identity |
Indian Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, botanist,
archaeologist, as well as an early writer of science fiction. |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1903: He was decorated as
Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire.
- 1904: He was the first
person from the Indian subcontinent to receive a US patent.
- 1912: Companion of the
Order of the Star of India (CSI, 1912).
- 1917: He was designated the
Knight Bachelor.
- 1920: Fellow of the Royal
Society (FRS, 1920).
- 1927: He was the President
of the 14th session of the Indian Science Congress.
- 1928: Member of the Vienna
Academy of Sciences.
- 1929: Member of Finnish
Society of Sciences and Letters.
- 1958: India issued a
postage stamp bearing his portrait.
- June 25, 2009: The Indian
Botanic Garden was renamed as the Acharya Jagadish Chandra
Bose Indian Botanic Garden on this day in honour of Jagadish
Chandra Bose.
- September 14, 2012: Bose's
experimental work in millimetre-band radio was recognised as
an IEEE Milestone in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
the first such recognition of a discovery in India.
|
| General |
- He was born in Munshiganj, near Dhaka, Bengal, Undivided
India (Now in Bangladesh).
- 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.
- He made remarkable progress in his research of remote
wireless signalling and was the first to use semiconductor
junctions to detect radio signals. IEEE named him one of the
fathers of radio science.
- He is also considered the father of Bengali science
fiction.
- Bose made a number of pioneering discoveries in plant
physiology. He also invented the crescograph, to measure
plant response to various stimuli, and thereby
scientifically proved parallelism between animal and plant
tissues.
- A crater on the moon has been named in his honour.
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