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‍                                    Jagdish Chandra Bose

 

‍         Bose invented the crescograph, a device he used to determine how plants reacted to various conditions and stimuli.  He surmised that plants could feel pain and had the ability to communicate.  Bose held public exhibitions to demonstrate these conclusions.  Popular Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw allegedly visited Bose’s laboratory and wept because he witnessed a cabbage “crying”.
         Born in 1858, in Bangladesh, Bose is most significantly recognized for his research in radio science.  He invented the receiver used by Marconi to detect a wireless signal transmitted across the Atlantic  December 12, 1901.  Walter Brattain, co-inventor of the transistor at Bell Labs, credits Bose as having actually invented the first semiconductor rectifier.    In 1997 the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers conferred upon Bose the title ‘Father of Radio Science’.
        In his spare time Bose wrote and published science fiction.
        In 1917 on his 60th birthday he founded the Bose Institute.  The interdisciplinary educational center welcomes scholars from all countries and conducts research in the fields of plant sciences, biomedical sciences, molecular biology, astro-particle physics, cosmic rays, and foundations of quantum physics.