Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose

Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was born in a bengali family in the year 1858 in Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh.Having received his primary education in the village Pathsala he came to Kolkata and took admission in St.Xavier's School. He completed his graduation from St.Xavier's College. Then he went to England and took his B.Sc degree from Cambridge University.
On his return to India, he joined Presidency College, Kolkata, as a professor. During his service career he carried on extensive research on Electro-magnet and plant-life during the period 1884 to 1915. His great post retirement work, foundation of the Bose Institute in Kolkata in 1917, enormously helped development of Science in India. As a scientist Sir J.C.bose is ranked as one of the greatest in the world. This great scientist left us in 1937.

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