Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose (1858-1937) was an Indian physicist and plant physiologist who did pioneering work in the measurement of plant growth and the responsiveness of plants to external stimuli. The life and scientific career of Jagadis Chandra Bose...

1858-1937 Indian physicist who successfully conducted wireless signaling experiments two years before Guglielmo Marconi's experiments on Salisbury Plain. Ahead of his time, Bose was the first to use semiconductor junctions to detect radio waves...