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Jagadish Chandra Bose
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a polymath with interests in biology, physics and writing science fiction. He was a pioneer in the investigation of radio microwave optics, made significant contributions to botany, and was a major force behind the expansion of experimental science on the Indian subcontinent. Bose is considered the father of Bengali science fiction. A crater on the Moon was named in h…
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science · Physicist, biologist and botanist (1857–1937) · botanist · university teacher · physicist · archaeologist · writer · chemist · essayist · short story writer · naturalist · physiologist · also Jagadish Chandra Bose, Jagadis Chunder, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Acharya Jagariis Chunder Bose, Bose
Born 30 November 1858 · Died 23 November 1937 · Q314267
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2025· 1 entry
Nature: Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose College
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2024· 1 entry
The Quint rated the claim “Jagadish Chandra Bose Will Be on British Currency £50 Note.” False.
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2018· 1 entry
The Bank of England decided to redesign the 50 pound note with a prominent scientist
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2017· 1 entry
Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,280 times.
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2016· 2 entries
Published “Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 5,087 times.
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013” in The Lancet — cited 5,007 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
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2004· 1 entry
Bose was ranked number 7 in BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengali of all time
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1977· 1 entry
For his own contributions to solid-state electronics, remarked that "J
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1958· 1 entry
The JBNSTS scholarship programme was started in West Bengal
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1954· 1 entry
Pearson and Brattain gave priority to Bose for the use of a semi-conducting crystal as a detector of radio waves
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1937· 1 entry
Died 1937-11-23.
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1917· 2 entries
Bose established the Bose Institute in Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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The institute was the first interdisciplinary research centre in Asia
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1915· 1 entry
Bose described the effect this early education had on him:
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1912· 1 entry
Awarded Companion of the Order of the Star of India (1912).
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1903· 2 entries
Awarded Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (1903).
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Emilio Guarini attributed priority to Professor Tommaso Tommasina of Genoa, citing his 1899–1900 experiments with mercury-based coherers
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1900· 1 entry
Presented his research at the first International Congress of Physics in Paris
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1899· 2 entries
“iron-mercury-iron coherer with telephone detector”
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Bose announced the development of an "iron-mercury-iron coherer with telephone detector" in a paper presented at the Royal Society, London
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1897· 1 entry
Bose described to the Royal Institution in London his research carried out in Kolkata at millimetre wavelengths
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1896· 1 entry
Bose wrote Niruddesher Kahini (The Story of the Missing One), a short story that was later expanded and added to Abyakta (অব্যক্ত) collection in 1921 with the new title Palatak Tuphan (Runaway Sea-Storm)
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1883· 1 entry
And a BA (Natural Sciences Tripos) from the University of Cambridge
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1875· 1 entry
Passed the entrance examination of the University of Dhaka and was admitted to St Xavier's College, Calcutta
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1869· 1 entry
Followed by SFX Greenherald International School, also in Dhaka
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1858· 1 entry
Born 1858-11-30.
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