Humans are considered as the best and the wisest creation of God. The earth was created with various other flora, fauna and microorganisms living on it. When God created human, he gifted them with ability to think, intellect and a sense of understanding. He wanted the earth to be a harmonious place and so humans were made as the smartest creatures to take care of the world. The humans didn\u2019t fail in this. They try their best to make Earth a better place by understanding the world and things around, be it living or nonliving, mobile or immobile!<\/p>\n
Jagdish Chandra Bose was one such eminent personality who not only helped the world by contributing his achievements in the field of science but he also studied the life of plants and animals! Bose brought to the world, the fact that just like humans the plants also have emotions and feelings. The plants breathe and even they die. He said that both plants and animals have various features which are similar to the human beings.<\/p>\n
Born on 30th November 1858, in Mymensingh situated in Bengal Province (present day Bangladesh), Bose belonged to a family of Brahmo Samaj. His father Bhagaban Chandra Bose, a Deputy Magistrate wanted him not to pursue Western education but to learn in their mother tongue. This was the reason for him joining a vernacular school where they taught in Bengali language. In 1879, he finished his graduation from an English medium college in Calcutta.<\/p>\n
Jagdish Chandra Bose was a brilliant student. To learn further, he went to England. In 1882, he joined\u00a0Christ\u2019s college in Cambridge<\/a>\u00a0to study natural science. After acquiring degrees in fields of natural science, Bose returned back to India and started his career. He joined Presidency College, Calcutta as the professor of Physics. But he was not a person to teach the same thing year after year and so in 1894, Jagdish realised that his interest is more towards research and finding new things.<\/p>\n Bose started his journey in the field of research with the discovery of\u00a0electromagnetic waves<\/a>. For this achievement, he was awarded with the Degree of Doctor in Science by the\u00a0Royal Society of England<\/a>. He also found the working of\u00a0wireless telegraphy<\/a>, but since he was late in announcing his discovery,\u00a0Marconi<\/a>\u00a0was given the honour \u2018Father of Radio\u2019. He devised an instrument called \u2018Coherer\u2019 to detect and measure the radio waves.<\/p>\n One of the greatest discoveries of\u00a0J. C. Bose<\/a>\u00a0was about plants. He revealed a big fact about plants. Just like humans, the plants also feel the pain. There are various systems within a plant just like the human body has with the help of which they live and function. The plants are immobile but there are a lot of movements happening within it.<\/p>\n For proving his point, on 10th May, 1901, Bose did an experiment. He took a plant whose stem were carefully taken out. The stem was soaked in hydrobromic acid solution. Crescograph was the instrument designed by him to record the pulse of the plant and showed it with the help of a spot.<\/p>\n Electrical signals were passed through the plant cell and the movement of the spot was noticed. Bromine is a poisonous element and when signals were passed through the cell, the spot started moving. The movement was first like a pendulum but after some minutes, the spot started vibrating more vigorously and then it stopped moving. The static position of the spot indicated the death of the plant cell due to poisonous bromide.<\/p>\n The successful proving of Bose\u2019s discovery showed that even plants have life and they also feel like humans do. Later, using his\u00a0crescograph<\/a>, Bose researched on effect of fertilizers, pesticides and light rays on plants. His tremendous contribution in the field of natural science has given a new direction to it.<\/p>\n Bose wrote various books on account of his research. Some of them include \u2018Response in the Living and Nonliving\u2019 (1902), \u2018The Nervous Mechanism of Plants\u2019 (1926), etc. Jagdish Chandra Bose was a legend and an inspiration to millions of youth and students who will bring science to a new level in the future! Major Contributions and Achievements of Sir. J.C. Bose<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n![\"J.C.B\"](\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190717181845im_\/http:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dwmomuuw9\/image\/upload\/f_auto,q_auto\/gyanpro_images\/\/2016\/09\/J.C.B.png\")
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