Thread by @ParveenKaswan

An Indian scientist who demonstrated to the world that plants have life.

On May 10, 1901 at jam-packed hall of Royal Society, London he demonstrated how plants have life with crescograph. Invented telegram. Remembering JC Bose, 1st modern scientist of India on death anniversary.

He recorded motion of plant tissues to about 10K times of their actual size.

Demonstrated how Plant died like a rat due to poisoned bromide solution.

Jagadish Chandra Bose became first Indian to be appointed as Professor of Physics in the Presidency College, and later to IES.

JC Bose was Offered half payment vis-a-vis European professors, in protest refused salary for 3 years and taught.

In 1998, Dr. Probir found out how Bose was the real inventor of Wireless Receiver, didn't patent, but Marcony patented.

Remembering the giant. #JCBOSE

Prior to his death in 1937, Bose set up the Bose Institute at Calcutta.

He was elected the Fellow of the Royal Society in 1920 for his amazing contributions and achievements.

How Bose was behind invention of Telegraph [ 3, Proc. IEEE, Vol. 86, No. 1, January 1998.]

Among his students notable were PC Mahalanobis, Meghnad Saha, Satyendra Nath Bose (Dirac named sub atomic particle boson after him)

Here an Indian who has a crater on Moon named after him. To recognise his achievements in radio communication which paved way for satellites later.