J.C. Bose Collection

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This section consists of the files of the Education Department of the Government of Bengal regarding Jagadis Chandra Bose and articles on Bose written by his students. The official documents have been retrieved from the records of the erstwhile Principal’s room of the Presidency College (now Presidency University) and the West Bengal State Archives. J. C. Bose (1858 – 1937) was a student of St. Xavier’s College and the University of Cambridge and a teacher of the Physics Department of Presidency College. As a physicist, he was first to demonstrate millimeter-length microwaves and study their properties. As a biologist, he experimented with both non-living and living matter, using apparatus which he himself invented, and proposed an important generalization on the similarity of responses in the living and the non-living things. In 1917, he founded Bose Institute, which was the first institution in India for interdisciplinary research.