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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