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Jagadish Chandra Bose

1858 - 1937

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Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (; IPA: [dʒɔɡodiʃ tʃɔndro boʃu]; 30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a polymath with interests in biology, physics, botany 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jagadish Chandra Bose has received more than 5,204,623 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Jagadish Chandra Bose is the 240th most popular physicist (up from 313th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Bangladesh (up from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Bangladeshi Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jagadish Chandra Bose ranks 240 out of 717Before him are Abdus Salam, Burton Richter, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Claude-Louis Navier, David J. Thouless, and Ettore Majorana. After him are Johannes Rydberg, David Bohm, Klaus Hasselmann, Julian Schwinger, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, and Gustaf Dalén.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Jagadish Chandra Bose ranks 26Before him are Maria Christina of Austria, Eugène Ysaÿe, Marie Bashkirtseff, Mihajlo Pupin, Alessandro Moreschi, and Eugène Dubois. After him are Eleonora Duse, Lovis Corinth, Prince Valdemar of Denmark, André Antoine, Fernand Khnopff, and Prince Henry of Battenberg. Among people deceased in 1937, Jagadish Chandra Bose ranks 32Before him are Karol Szymanowski, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Frank B. Kellogg, Charles-Marie Widor, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Emilio Mola. After him are Gustaf Dalén, Albert Roussel, Wallace Carothers, Edith Wharton, Pavel Florensky, and Louis Vierne.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Jagadish Chandra Bose ranks 5 out of 57Before him are Muhammad Yunus (1940), Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920), Atiśa (982), and Abdul Hamid (1944). After him are Sheikh Hasina (1947), William Beveridge (1879), Chandragupta I (250), Sri Chinmoy (1931), Zillur Rahman (1929), Ziaur Rahman (1936), and Meghnad Saha (1893).

Among PHYSICISTS In Bangladesh

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