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Source: The post is based on the article “Ministry of Culture organizes International conference on the contributions of J C Bose: A Satyagrahi Scientist” published in PIB on 5th December 2022.
What is the News?
The Ministry of Culture has organized an international conference on the contributions of J C Bose: A Satyagrahi Scientist” on his 164th birth anniversary.
Who is Jagdish Chandra Bose?
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858 – 1937) was an Indian physicist and plant physiologist.
He earned a B.Sc. from University College London, which was connected with the University of London in 1883, and a BA (Natural Sciences Tripos) from the University of Cambridge in 1884.
Contributions
In 1917, he established Bose Institute – Asia’s first modern research center devoted to interdisciplinary studies.
He discovered wireless communication and was named Father of Radio Science by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
He invented the crescograph, a device for measuring the growth of plants. He for the first time demonstrated that plants have feelings.
He was the first to demonstrate radio communication with millimetre wavelengths, which fall in the 30GHz to 300GHz spectrum.
Bose is considered the father of Bengali science fiction. A crater on the moon has been named in his honour.
In 1896, he published Niruddesher Kahini, first work of science fiction in the Bengali language
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.
Books: Response in the Living and Non-Living, The Nervous: Mechanism of Plants etc.
