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Ministry of Culture organizes International conference on the contributions of “J C Bose: A Satyagrahi Scientist” as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsava.

Highlights:

• The aim of the conference was to provide a voice to the unheard contributions of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose in the walks of the pre-independence era as a scientist and a freedom fighter.

About Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose

• Pioneered 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.
• He has been named one of the fathers of radio science.
• Bose is considered the father of Bengali science fiction.
• He invented the Cresco graph, a device for measuring the growth of plants.
• A crater on the moon was named in his honour.
• He founded Bose Institute, a premier research institute in India and also one of its oldest. Established in 1917, the institute was the first interdisciplinary research centre in Asia.

• Books : Living and Non-Living (1902) and The Nervous Mechanism of Plants