2016-11-30 Wed

What happens if you take a rich magistrate's son and make him learn in a village school sitting beside the sons of servants and fishermen? He'll hear tales of birds and animals that make him curious about Nature. And that makes him one of India's first scientists - Jagdish Chandra Bose.

Born on November 30, 1858, Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose was an eminent Indian scientist. Jagdish Chandra Bose was born in Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh). Bose graduated from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta. He then went to the University of London to study medicine, but could not pursue studies in medicine because of health problems. Instead, he conducted his research with the Nobel Laureate Lord Rayleigh at Cambridge and returned to India.

He then joined the Presidency College of the University of Calcutta as a Professor of Physics and carried out scientific research. He made remarkable progress in his research of remote wireless signalling and was the first to use semiconductor junctions to detect radio signals.

However, he is most remarkably known for his pioneering discoveries in plant physiology. Using his known invention the crescograph, he proved that it is possible to measure plant response to various stimuli, and thereby scientifically proved parallelism between animal and plant tissues proving the existence of feelings in plants.

His achievements were commemorated all over the world in different ways. He was awarded the title of Sir by British Government.

India post issued a 15 naya paisa stamp was published in the year of 1858 celebrating the 100th Birth Anniversary of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose.

On the other hand, Bangladesh issued an 8 tanka stamp in 1999.

Grenda issued a set of 4 stamps on World Radio Day in Oct 2013. One of the stamps depicts Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose along with the Indian Flag.

Such a proud moment of the Nation!