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Jagadish Chandra Bose

1858 - 1937

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Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (; IPA: [d͡ʒɔɡod̪iʃ t͡ʃɔn̪d̪ro boʃu]; 30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a polymath with interests in biology, physics and writing science fiction. He was a pioneer in the investigation of radio microwave optics, made significant contributions to botany, and was a major force behind the expansion of experimental science on the Indian subcontinent. Bose is considered the father of Bengali science fiction. A crater on the Moon was named in his honour. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jagadish Chandra Bose is the 113th most popular physicist (up from 270th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Bangladesh (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Bangladeshi Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jagadish Chandra Bose ranks 113 out of 851. Before him are Hannes Alfvén, Dennis Gabor, Clinton Davisson, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Peter Higgs, and Ernest Lawrence. After him are Heinrich Rohrer, Walther Bothe, Peter Grünberg, Willis Lamb, Ernst Ruska, and Arnold Sommerfeld.

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Among people born in 1858, Jagadish Chandra Bose ranks 11. Before him are Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Theodore Roosevelt, Rudolf Diesel, Gustaf V of Sweden, Georg Simmel, and Christiaan Eijkman. After him are Omar Mukhtar, Giuseppe Peano, Emmeline Pankhurst, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Charles de Foucauld, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Among people deceased in 1937, Jagadish Chandra Bose ranks 15. Before him are Amelia Earhart, Erich Ludendorff, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Lou Andreas-Salomé, George Gershwin, and Gustaf Dalén. After him are Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Yevgeny Zamyatin, J. M. Barrie, Gerda Taro, Austen Chamberlain, and Gaston Doumergue.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Jagadish Chandra Bose ranks 2 out of 74. Before him are Sheikh Hasina (1947). After him are Chandragupta I (250), Muhammad Yunus (1940), Mohammed Shahabuddin (1949), Atiśa (982), Abdul Hamid (1944), Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920), Mohammad Ali Bogra (1909), Matsyendranatha (901), Zillur Rahman (1929), and William Beveridge (1879).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Bangladesh

Among physicists born in Bangladesh, Jagadish Chandra Bose ranks 1. After him are Meghnad Saha (1893).

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