As the nation commemorates ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, marking the 75-year of its Independence, there will never be a better time to remember the great scientist and luminary – Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose – on his birth anniversary on 30th November. Who was Jagadish Chandra Bose? Jagadish Chandra Bose was an Indian physicist and plant physiologist known for his work on radio waves and plant responses to external stimuli. He invented the crescograph to measure plant movements and growth. Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose is one of the most prominent first Indian scientists who proved by experimentation that both animals and plants share much in common. He demonstrated that plants are also sensitive to heat, cold, light, noise and various other external stimuli. Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose [1] (/ boʊs /; [2] IPA: [d͡ʒɔɡod̪iʃ t͡ʃɔn̪d̪ro boʃu]; 30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) [3] was a polymath with interests in biology, physics and writing science fiction. [4]
