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| Jagadish Chandra Bose |
Jagadish Chandra Bose was known as botanist, biologist, polymath, physicist, science fiction writer and archaeologist. He was born on 30 November 1858 at Mymensingh, Bangladesh. His father Bhagawan Chandra Bose was a Deputy Collector. The Bose family had their original home in the village of Rarikhal in Bikrampur at Dhaka. Bose had his early education in a rural school in Faridpur in the course of which he developed an interest in the folk plays of Bengal and in the stories and characters of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. At the age of eleven he went to Calcutta where he studied as St Xavier's School and College. He passed his Entrance examination of Calcutta University in 1875 and Bachelor of Science in 1879. Here, under the influence of Rev Father Lafont, he developed an interest in the physical sciences. Later he was sent to England for higher studies. At the beginning he was enrolled for study in medicine which he had to give up reasons of health. Later he joined Christ College, Cambridge, to prepare for Natural Sciences Tripos examination and obtained the BA degree from Cambridge University. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from London University in 1884.
After return from London, he was appointed Assistance Professor of Physics at the Presidency College, Calcutta, India. Bose started his research career in 1894 and devised a series of experiments to demonstrate the optical behaviour of electrical waves such as reflection, refraction, total reflection, and polarization diffraction. The result of his investigations appeared in leading scientific periodicals such as the Electrician in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Philosophical Magazine. On the basis of these investigations he was awarded the DSc degree by London University in 1896. In his methods of microwave generation, he anticipated the modern wave-guides, while some of his other applications closely resembled those employed during the early phase of the development of radar.
(Reference: Banglapedia)
