<b>23 November 1937:</b>
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Basu Died at Giridih in Bengal, at the age of 87.
<img src='http://www.areplantsconscious.com/JC_Bose.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
The giant pioneer needs no introduction, yet here it is for the sake of easy access. He was a great innovator and multi-faceted scientist, grand father of new scientific age in India. He was a physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist, the first ever Indian to get a US patent (due to peer pressure), and a marvelous fiction writer. His pioneering legacy remains the "discovery" of plant physiology, and a crescograph to measure the plant response to various stimuli. He is popularly known to scientifically prove the Hindu idea that plants are 'alive'.
The apparatus used by Acharya Basu:
<img src='http://www.areplantsconscious.com/boseapparatus.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
He also invented radio signal detecter and declared it public a full year before Marconi, although he never cared to patent this. He was a firm advocate of what you would today call an 'open-code' regime as he expressed openly on many occasions. He wanted to uphold the tradition of Indian knowledge creation without lust or greed of fame and money, and did not beleive in patenting innovations (whether it was good or bad is up for debate).
The other most important contribution of his was a stimulation of many young Indians, back in the days of British Colonial times, to think independently and turn to fundamental research in sciences. Two of his most notable students Sir Meghnad Saha and Sir Satyendra Nath Basu, carried on his legacy.
Seated in center with his band of young protegees:
<img src='http://www.areplantsconscious.com/bose_with_students.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
A great resource on his life and works: http://www.areplantsconscious.com/
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<b>October 31, 1883</b>
Died, Swami Dayananda Saraswati at Ajmer, Rajasthan at an age of 59. His open opposition to orthodoxy and his message of 'Back to the Veda' cost him his life, when he was poisoned while a guest of the Maharaja of Jodhpur. On his deathbed, he forgave his poisoner, the Maharaja's cook, and actually gave him money from his pocket to flee the king's wrath. Unable to recover, he finally died at Ajmer on the evening of Diwali day, October 31, 1883.
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Basu Died at Giridih in Bengal, at the age of 87.
<img src='http://www.areplantsconscious.com/JC_Bose.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
The giant pioneer needs no introduction, yet here it is for the sake of easy access. He was a great innovator and multi-faceted scientist, grand father of new scientific age in India. He was a physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist, the first ever Indian to get a US patent (due to peer pressure), and a marvelous fiction writer. His pioneering legacy remains the "discovery" of plant physiology, and a crescograph to measure the plant response to various stimuli. He is popularly known to scientifically prove the Hindu idea that plants are 'alive'.
The apparatus used by Acharya Basu:
<img src='http://www.areplantsconscious.com/boseapparatus.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
He also invented radio signal detecter and declared it public a full year before Marconi, although he never cared to patent this. He was a firm advocate of what you would today call an 'open-code' regime as he expressed openly on many occasions. He wanted to uphold the tradition of Indian knowledge creation without lust or greed of fame and money, and did not beleive in patenting innovations (whether it was good or bad is up for debate).
The other most important contribution of his was a stimulation of many young Indians, back in the days of British Colonial times, to think independently and turn to fundamental research in sciences. Two of his most notable students Sir Meghnad Saha and Sir Satyendra Nath Basu, carried on his legacy.
Seated in center with his band of young protegees:
<img src='http://www.areplantsconscious.com/bose_with_students.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
A great resource on his life and works: http://www.areplantsconscious.com/
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<October 31 seems to be a busy day... updated 58 with>
<b>October 31, 1883</b>
Died, Swami Dayananda Saraswati at Ajmer, Rajasthan at an age of 59. His open opposition to orthodoxy and his message of 'Back to the Veda' cost him his life, when he was poisoned while a guest of the Maharaja of Jodhpur. On his deathbed, he forgave his poisoner, the Maharaja's cook, and actually gave him money from his pocket to flee the king's wrath. Unable to recover, he finally died at Ajmer on the evening of Diwali day, October 31, 1883.