International conference on “J C Bose: A Satyagrahi Scientist” organized in New Delhi

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The Union Ministry of Culture organised an “International conference on the contributions of J C Bose: A Satyagrahi Scientist” at the  Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi on 3 December 2022 on the occasion of 164th birth anniversary of legendary Indian scientist Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose.

The aim of the conference was to acknowledge and popularize the contributions of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose.

Jagdish Chandra Bose 

JC Bose was born on 30 November 1858 in Mymensingh (Bangladesh) and died on 23 November 1937 at Giridih, Jharkhand.

He was a Plant Physiologist and physicist who invented the crescograph, a device for measuring the growth of plants. He for the first time demonstrated that plants have feelings. 

He discovered wireless communication and was named the Father of Radio Science by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. 

A crater on the moon is named in his honour. 

He established Bose Institute in Kolkata in 1917 which is the first interdisciplinary research centre in Asia.