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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 5,301,150 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Jagadish Chandra Bose is the 269th most popular physicist (down from 240th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Bangladesh (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Bangladeshi Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jagadish Chandra Bose ranks 269 out of 851. Before him are John Cockcroft, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Daniel Rutherford, John Vincent Atanasoff, Allan MacLeod Cormack, and Andrew Huxley. After him are Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Hugh David Politzer, Johannes Rydberg, Edmond Becquerel, August Kundt, and Carlo Rubbia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Jagadish Chandra Bose ranks 27. Before him are Maria Christina of Austria, Mihajlo Pupin, Ludwig Quidde, Eugène Ysaÿe, Eleonora Duse, and Keke Geladze. After him are Princess Louise of Belgium, Giovanni Segantini, Michael Hainisch, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Eugène Dubois, and André Antoine. Among people deceased in 1937, Jagadish Chandra Bose ranks 33. Before him are Ramsay MacDonald, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Emilio Mola, Frank B. Kellogg, Charles-Marie Widor, and Keke Geladze. After him are Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Albert Roussel, Edith Wharton, Pavel Florensky, Ray Ewry, and Wallace Carothers.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Jagadish Chandra Bose ranks 7 out of 74. Before him are Muhammad Yunus (1940), Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920), Sri Chinmoy (1931), Atiśa (982), Sheikh Hasina (1947), and Abdul Hamid (1944). After him are Chandragupta I (250), William Beveridge (1879), Mohammed Shahabuddin (1949), Begum Rokeya (1880), Zillur Rahman (1929), and Ziaur Rahman (1936).

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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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