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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Profile: Jagadish Chandra Bose a plant physiologist

Sohoni Das
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Jagadish Chandra Bose was a physicist, biologist, botanist and a pioneer in the field of radio and microwave optics and made very significant contributions to plant physiology. He was able to show the similarities between the behavioral response of plant and animal tissue. He had laid the foundations of experimental science in the Indian Subcontinent. Born in Mymensingh, Bengal (Eastern India and now Bangladesh) during the colonial rule in India, graduated from St Xavier’s College, Calcutta, and joined Presidency College of University of Calcutta as a Professor of Physics. He retired and then founded the Bose Research Institute, the first scientific research institute in India.

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