Bose, Dr. : Sir Jagadish Chandra (1858-1937), born in Dacca district, educated at St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, graduated with Honours from Cambridge 1884, awarded Doctor of Science by Cambridge Univ. 1896, was Professor of Physical Sciences at Presidency College, Calcutta (1885-1915), founded in 1917, the Bose Research Institute, Calcutta of which he was director till his death. Blacklisted by Govt. for being a prominent nationalist when the topmost scientists in England expressed great admiration of him & his discoveries in physiology, Whitehall wired to the Viceroy: “the little man, who is undoubtedly the foremost scientific authority amongst the educational officers of the Indian Govt.… receives, however, the native salary, only two-thirds of the salary of an European”, & hoped Viceroy’s “ingenuity could suggest some other means of meeting his merits” than equal salary with Europeans in Education Dept. in India. Bose authored Response in the Living & the Non-Living (1902); Plant responses (1906) & Motor Mechanism of Plants (1928).
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