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Sada Shree<p>He documented a characteristic electrical response curve of plants to stimuli as well as a near absence of response in plants treated with poison or anesthetic. In 1902, Bose came back to Kolkata where he continued his work on the physiological properties of plant tissues</p><p>One of his most significant inventions was the Crescograph, an instrument that could measure the growth of a plant, as small as 1/100,000 inch per second. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JagdishChandraBose" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JagdishChandraBose</span></a></p>
Sada Shree<p>Bose began to believe that even metals too had feelings, and soon turned his attention to plants.<br />If animals and human could respond to outside stimuli, could not plants also do the same, he wondered. And that led to his landmark research on plant behavior and stimuli, where he first conducted his experiment with a leaf, a carrot and a turnip he bought from his garden.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JagdishChandraBose" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JagdishChandraBose</span></a></p>
Sada Shree<p>In the meantime Bose conducted his research at the Davy-Faraday Research Institute in England, where he would do his path breaking work on the discovery of plant stimuli. His work on plants was actually motivated by his observations of the behavior of his electric wave receiver</p><p>His receiver, showed signs of “fatigue” after prolonged use, but could be revived back to it’s original sensitivity after a period of rest. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JagdishChandraBose" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JagdishChandraBose</span></a></p>
Sada Shree<p>He openly laid out the design for his coherer for others to adopt, and refused to take any patent for it. Even when he was offered money for his inventions, he refused to take it.</p><p>. One of his admirers, Sara Bull, filed a patent for the galena receiver by Bose. But he showed no interest and it lapsed. His philosophy was simple, knowledge was not any one’s personal property, and any could use the fruits of his work.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JagdishChandraBose" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JagdishChandraBose</span></a></p>
Sada Shree<p>Sir Nevil Mott, Noble Laureate remarked that “J.C.Bose was at least 60 years ahead of his time, had anticipated the existence of N and P type semiconductors much before than any one”.</p><p>Lord Kelvin wrote a letter to the then Secretary of State, George Hamilton, asking for assistance to Bose in setting up a proper laboratory with all the equipment needed in Kolkata.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JagdishChandraBose" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JagdishChandraBose</span></a></p>
Sada Shree<p>He had met Marconi in 1896, who was at the same time working on the wireless, and seeking to market it commercially.</p><p>Bose was not interested in the commercial aspect, and opened his research work for all to use. In spite of that his contribution to the field of radio science was very significant, where he would rank as one of the pioneers.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JagdishChandraBose" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JagdishChandraBose</span></a></p>
Sada Shree<p>Should Professor Bose succeed in perfecting and patenting his ‘Coherer’, we may in time see the whole system of coast lighting throughout the navigable world revolutionised by a Bengali scientist working single handed in our Presidency College Laboratory</p><p>One thing that needs to be understood, is that Bose was primarily seeking to study the nature of radio microwave optics, he was not really keen on the radio. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JagdishChandraBose" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JagdishChandraBose</span></a></p>
Sada Shree<p>Having graduated in BA( Physical Sciences) from Kolkata University, Bose was not exactly sure of his future. However considering the financial difficulties his father was facing then, Bose decided to appear for the Indian Civil Services exam.</p><p>His parents decided that it would be better for him to study Medicine abroad in England, and his mother pawned her jewelry to raise money for it. And soon he sailed for England, to study medicine.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JagdishChandraBose" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JagdishChandraBose</span></a></p>
Sada Shree<p>Bose was also inspired by his father, who undertook many scientific projects, and was also a nationalist and humanist. No better example of his humanism, than the fact that one of his servants, whom he appointed to look after Bose, was a dreaded ex dacoit.</p><p>He narrated stories from the Ramayan and Mahabharat to Bose, who was pretty much influenced by the character of Karna. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JagdishChandraBose" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JagdishChandraBose</span></a></p>
Sada Shree<p>Contrary to the then established practice of sending people to a convent school, his father sent him to a vernacular school. This helped him to get a much broader perspective of life, studying with people lower down the order than him.</p><p>Most of his classmates were sons of farmers and fishermen, and from them he learnt about the rather tough life they lived. And also the techniques they used for catching fish or growing crops. </p><p> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JagdishChandraBose" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JagdishChandraBose</span></a></p>
Sada Shree<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JagdishChandraBose" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JagdishChandraBose</span></a> was born in Mymensingh now in Bangladesh, on Nov 30, 1858. His father Bhagawan Chandra Bose was a Brahmo by belief, and worked as the Deputy Magistrate of Faridpur and other places</p><p>By nature a man with a heart of gold, Bhagawan Chandra helped out villagers from his own money during the 1880 famine in Bengal. Bose grew up more in Faridpur though, where his father was stationed.</p>
Sada Shree<p>To call J.C.Bose just a scientist, would however be akin to calling, Leonardo Da Vinci a mere painter, this man was a true polymath, whose genius transcended boundaries and named by IEEE as one of the fathers of radio science.</p><p>He also wrote science fiction in Bengali, and apart from the crescograph, invented many other instruments for research in physics and contributed to field of chronobiology. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JagdishChandraBose" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JagdishChandraBose</span></a></p>
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