Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose

Trivia

• Bose was knighted in 1917 and soon thereafter elected Fellow of the Royal Society, London, (both as physicist and biologist)
• He also suggested the existence of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun, which was confirmed in 1944
• In 1895, two years before Marconi’s demonstration, Bose demonstrated wireless communication using radio waves, using them to ring a bell remotely and to explode some gunpowder
• He developed the use of galena crystals for making receivers, both for short wavelength radio waves and for white and ultraviolet light
• Publications
  Nature published about 27 papers
  J.C. Bose, Collected Physical Papers. New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1927
  Researches into the Irritability of Plants
  The Ascent of Sap
  The Nervous Mechanisms of Plants
• Honors:
  Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) (1903)
  Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) (1912)
  Knighthood, 1917
  Fellow of the Royal Society (1920)
  Member of the Vienna Academy of Science, 1928
  President of the 14th session of the Indian Science Congress in 1927
  Member of the League of Nations' Committee for Intellectual Cooperation
  Founding fellow of the National Institute of Sciences of India (now renamed as the Indian National Science Academy)
• Commemorating his birth centenary in 1958, the JBNSTS scholarship programme was started in West Bengal
• Bose’s place in history has now been re-evaluated, and he is credited with the invention of the first wireless detection device and the discovery of millimetre length electromagnetic waves and considered a pioneer in the field of biophysics
• He was the first science fiction writer in the Bengali language
• In 1896, Bose wrote Niruddesher Kahini, the first major work in Bangla science fiction. Later, he added the story in the Obbakto book as Polatok Tufan