Jagadish Chandra Bose had his early education in village school in Bengla medium. In 1869, Jagadish Chandra Bose was sent to Calcutta to learn English and was educated at St. Xavier’s School and College. He graduated with degree in science from St. Xavier’s College Calcutta in 1879.
In London he first studied medicine. But he repeatedly fell ill. So he had to discontinue the course. In 1880, he received admission and studied Natural Science in Christ Church College, Cambridge.
At Cambridge, he worked with a professor of physics, Lord Rayleigh. It was here that he befriended with the famous biologist Dr Sidney Vines and became interested in biology.
Returned from Cambridge in 1885, he was appointed a Professor of Physics in Presidency College, Calcutta. Here, he initiated his experiments in various areas in physics and botany.
He invented wireless telegraphy in 1895 a year before Guglielmo Marconi patented his invention.
He converted a small enclosure adjoining a bathroom in the Presidency College into a laboratory. He carried out experiments involving refraction, diffraction and polarization.
Chandra Bose received the D.Sc degree of London University in 1896 for his work on the determination of wavelength of electric radiation by diffraction grating.
In 1915, he left the university to found the Bose Research Institute, Calcutta. He was able to interest the world’s scientists in his work and his fame grew. Jagadish Chandra Bose died on November 23, 1937.
Jagadish Chandra Bose
