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Sir J. C. Bose was a pioneer of radio and microwave research and one of the first to study plant physiology with sensitive instruments. He founded the Bose Institute in Kolkata in 1917.
Key contributions
- Demonstrated wireless transmission using millimetre-wave microwaves in the 1890s
- Invented the crescograph to measure tiny growth movements in plants
- Showed that plants respond to heat, light, chemicals and injury
- Wrote science fiction in Bengali — among the first in the language