Jagadish Chandra Bose

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Jagadish Chandra Bose



Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction from British India. He pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics, made significant contributions to plant science, and laid the foundations of experimental science in the Indian subcontinent. IEEE named him one of the fathers of radio science. Bose is considered the father of Bengali science fiction, and also invented the crescograph, a device for measuring the growth of plants. A crater on the moon has been named in his honour.



Known for          




  • Millimetre waves

  • Radio

  • Crescograph

  • Contributions to plant biology



Awards




  • Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) 1903

  • Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) 1911

  • Knight Bachelor (1917)



Fields




  • Physics

  • biophysics

  •  biology

  • botany

  • archaeology

  • Bengali literature

  • Bengali science fiction



Institutions




  • University of Calcutta

  • University of Cambridge

  • University of London



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Ashok Gadgil

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Ashok Gadgil



Ashok Gadgil (born November 15, 1950 in India) Is Faculty Senior Scientist and was Director of the Energy and Environmental Technologies Division for 2010-2015 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is also Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and technology design for development. He also has substantial experience in technical, economic, and policy research on energy efficiency and its implementation - particularly in developing countries.



Education




  • Ph.D. Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1979

  • M.A. Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1975

  • M.Sc. Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1973

  • B.Sc. Physics, University of Bombay, 1971



Areas of expertise:




  • Computational Fluid Dynamics of indoor air and pollutant transport

  • Simulation methods for complex non-linear systems

  • Energy efficiency in buildings

  • Drinking water treatment



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