Jagadish Chandra Bose
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, CSI, CIE, FRS was a polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, as well as an early writer of science fiction. Living in British controlled India, he pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics, made very 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. He is considered the father of Bengali science fiction. He also invented the crescograph. A crater on the moon has been named in his honour.
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was born in Mymensingh, Bengal Presidency, onNovember 1858. His father, Bhagawan Chandra Bose, was a Brahmo and leader of the Brahmo Samaj and worked as a deputy magistrate assistant commissioner in Faridpur, Bardhaman and other places.
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