J C Bose - A Pioneer

Acharya Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist, as well as an early writer of science fiction. He made very significant contributions to plant science.  He used his own invention, the crescograph, to measure plant response to various stimuli, and thereby scientifically proved that plants have life.

He pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics,  IEEE named him one of the fathers of radio science. He was the first to use semiconductor junctions to detect radio signals. However, he did not wanted to take commercial benefit from this invention, and made his inventions public in order to allow others to further develop his research. As a result it took 100 years for the world to rightly credit him with invention of first wireless detection device.  Bose work in radio microwave optics was not related to radio communication but his research may have been used in radio inventions by other inventors.


One of the greatest Indian scientist who believed technology was never meant to be patented but to be used by one and all. As a pioneer, J.C. Bose has remained an inspiration to thousands of Indian students aspiring to a career in science.