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Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (November 30, 1858 – November 23, 1937) was a Bengali physicist from undivided India, who pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics. His research in plant stimuli were pioneering, he showed with the help of his newly invented crescograph that plants responded to various stimuli as if they had nervous systems like that of animals. He is also considered as the father of Bengali science fiction. He was the first Indian to get a US patent, in 1904, although Bose was himself critical of patents.
Jagadish Bose studied in Calcutta University, University of Cambridge and University of London. He was the first Indian to join Presidency College to teach science and had to face great difficulty in establishing himself. Commemorating his birth centenary in 1958, the JBNSTS scholarship program was started in West Bengal
