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Remembering Sir J.C. Bose

Sen Gupta, D. P, Engineer, M. H, Shepherd, V. A

2009

Overview

The year 2008 marks the 150th birth anniversary of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose who, at a relatively young age, established himself among the ranks of European scientists during the heyday of colonial rule in India. He was one of those great Indian scientists who helped to introduce western science into India. A physicist, a plant electrophysiologist and one of the first few biophysicists in the world, Sir J C Bose was easily 60 years ahead of his time and much of his research that was ignored during his lifetime is now entering the mainstream. As the inventor of millimeter waves and their generation, transmission and reception, and the first to make a solid state diode, he was the first scientist who convincingly demonstrated that plants possess a nervous system of their own and “feel” pain. J C Bose later spent his life's savings to set up the Institute which carries his name in Calcutta and Darjeeling.

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd,IISc Press,World Scientific
• Subject: Biophysics -- India -- Congresses / Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir, 1858-1937 -- Congresses / Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore / Scientists -- India -- Biography -- Congresses
• ISBN: 9789814271615, 9814271616