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JAGADISH CHANDRA BOSE

India has produced many great scientists and Jagadish Chandra Bose was one of them. He dedicated his life to Botany and was

honoured not only in India but abroad also. He was born on 30 November 1858 at Mymensingh(it is now in Bangladesh). He belonged to

a simple family. His parents were always ready to help the poor and the needy.They helped thousands of orphaned children during

the time of great Bengal famine which was followed by a Malaria epidemic.

He received his junoir- level education Bengali medium. His interest in plants started at a very young age.

He spent a lot of his time with farmers in the fields. From his childhood, he loved to experiment and understand the laws of

nature. He completed his studies in England. He had a dream of building a science laboratory and a research  institute. He

saved money and bought a small laboratory and built his equipment.

He was the first scientist to discover many facts about plants, such as

1. plants respond to touch

2. they suffer pain when cut

3. they die when poison is injected

4. their suffer thirst but their thirst is for water and light

5. their cells expand and contract like ouir hearts.

Jagadish Bose  refused to patent his discoveries and inventions. He used to say that knowledge should not be

anybody's personal property and it should be shared for the good of mankind.