JAGADIS CHANDRA BOSE (1858 – 1937)

JAGADIS CHANDRA BOSE ( – ) Jagadis Chandra Bose ( – ) He developed an apparatus for generating ultrashort electro-magnetic waves and studied their quasi- optical properties. He was said to be the first to employ a semiconductor like galena as a self- recovering detector of electromagnetic waves. Bose published three papers in the British magazine, ‘The Electrician’ of Dec. . His invention was published in the ‘Proceedings of The Royal Society’ on April over two years before Marconi’s first wireless communication on December . Bose also invented highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimulii and established parallelism between animal and plant tissues.