SCIENTIST JAGADISH CHANDRA BOSE

JAGADISH CHANDRA BOSE India has produced many great scientists and Jagadish Chandra Bose was one of them. He dedicated his life to Botany and was honoured not only in India but abroad also. He was born on 30 November 1858 at Mymensingh(it is now in Bangladesh). He belonged to a simple family. His parents were always ready to help the poor and the needy.They helped thousands of orphaned children during the time of great Bengal famine which was followed by a Malaria epidemic.

He received his junoir- level education Bengali medium. His interest in plants started at a very young age. He spent a lot of his time with farmers in the fields. From his childhood, he loved to experiment and understand the laws of

nature. He completed his studies in England. He had a dream of building a science laboratory and a research institute. He

saved money and bought a small laboratory and built his equipment. He was the first scientist to discover many facts about plants, such as

1. plants respond to touch

2. they suffer pain when cut

3. they die when poison is injected

4. their suffer thirst but their thirst is for water and light

5. their cells expand and contract like ouir hearts.

Jagadish Bose  refused to patent his discoveries and inventions. He used to say that knowledge should not be   anybody's personal property and it should be shared  for the good of mankind. He was greatly inspired by swami Vivekananda. He proved to the world that scientists could also do wonderful things for mankind through science. He was honoured as a fellow of the royal society  of England  in 1920. He wanted to provide better working conditions for other Indian scientists. He accumulated funds and set up the Bose Institute at Calcutta .He used to call it temple. He died in November 1937. He dedicated his life to science and  brought glory to our country.