Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (November 30, 1858 – November 23, 1937) was an Indian polymath, physicist, biologist, and archaeologist, often hailed as the father of radio science in India.
Born in Mymensingh, Bengal Presidency (now Bangladesh), to a Bengali Kayastha family, he pioneered millimeter-wave research, invented the crescograph for plant physiology, and demonstrated plant responses to stimuli akin to animal nerves. A self-funded innovator who faced racial discrimination, he bridged physics and biology, authoring books like Response in the Living and Non-Living (1902). Knighted in 1917, he ranked seventh in a 2004 BBC poll of the Greatest Bengalis.