Jagdish Chandra Bose

Why in news?

• Recently, the Ministry of Culture has organized an international conference on the contributions of Jagdish Chandra Bose on his 164th birth anniversary.

About Jagdish Chandra Bose:

• Jagadish Chandra Bose, born in 1858, was a biologist, physicist, botanist and an early writer of science fiction.
• Bose is considered the father of Bengali science fiction. A crater on the moon has been named in his honour.
• He was responsible for the expansion of experimental science in India.

Scientific Contribution:

• He invented the crescograph:
  • A device for measuring the growth of plants.
  • He used Crescograph, to measure plant response to various stimuli, and thereby scientifically proved parallelism between animal and plant tissues.
  • He for the first time demonstrated that plants have feelings.
• He also discovered wireless communication and was named the Father of Radio Science by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
• He pioneered the investigation of radio microwave optics.
• He founded Bose Institute, a premier research institute of India and also one of its oldest.
  • Established in 1917, the Institute was the first interdisciplinary research centre in Asia.

Books:

• Response in the Living and Non-Living (1902)
• The Nervous Mechanism of Plants (1926).

PRACTICE QUESTION

Which of the following statements is/are contributions of Jagdish Chandra Bose ?

1. He pioneered the investigation of radio microwave optics

2. He invented the crescograph, a device for measuring the growth of plants

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

(a) 1 only

(b) 2 only

(c) Both 1 and 2

(d) Neither 1 nor 2

Answer