Biography of Sir Jagdish Chandra Basu
Curiosity about questions related to plantations Since childhood, grew up in a religious environment, curious Jagdish Chandra Basu was born on 30 November 1858 in Bikrampur, now part of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Your father Mr. Bhagwan Singh Basu was the Deputy Collector.
Sir Jagadish Chandra Basu Life
At that time, officers wanted to make their child an officer by teaching their child in English school. But father Shri Bhagwan Singh Basu did not want to make his son an officer but a true country servant. So Jagadishchandra Basu was admitted to a nearby school, where most of the farmers and fishermen's children were studying. They also used to study, as well as distribute the hands of their family members in agriculture and other works. Living with those children, Basu adopted the real education of life. At the same time, he was inspired to do manual labor. A feeling of understanding everyone was born, love for mother tongue also.
When the answers to their questions about plant-plants were not found in childhood, they started searching for them when they were growing up. Childhood questions like: - Why did Mother prevent her from plucking leaves? Why did the night stop them from going down? Due to his curious tendency, he surprised the whole world with his discoveries.
Returned to India after pursuing higher education in chemistry and botany from London. Became a teacher of Physics at Presidency College, Calcutta. At that time there were mostly English teachers in the college. The principals were also Englishmen. Indians were discriminated against there. Indians were paid less than the British for similar work. Since childhood, he had understood the self-respect of his country and caste, so he faced this injustice firmly. The reason for giving a low salary to Indians was also that they were not considered worthy of studying science.
On protesting Jagdish Chandra Basu, the principal there reduced his salary, which Basu refused to take. They continued to do their work without pay. Due to financial constraints, he had to face many problems but he kept his point with patience. As a result, he got the proper result of his self-respect. College people had to bow down to his patience. They also agreed to pay full salaries to other Indians. Jagdish Chandra Basu's job was also confirmed and he got his outstanding salary.
After studying Basu, he used to spend the rest of his time in a scientific experiment. He invented such devices that could send messages without wires. Today's radios work on the basis of their use. Jagadish Chandra Basu is the real inventor of wireless wire, but he could not get credit for it under the circumstances.
Basu was not a man to give up, he started studying on plants, anyway, he had curiosity from his childhood. The discovery made on plant-plants proved to be a boon for him. His discovery has proved that plants also breathe like living beings, wake up sleeping, and have the effect of happiness and sorrow on them too. He made such an instrument, by which the movements of the plants were written on their own. This instrument is called a crescograph. The London-based Royal Society called his invention a wonderful discovery and named him a member of the Royal Society.
While exhibiting this discovery, a very funny incident happened to him. In Paris, he had to show the effect of various poisons on plants. He used potassium cyanide on a plant, but the plant blossomed more than it waned. Potassium cyanide is a very strong type of poison. He was very surprised to see the reverse effect on the plant. When she tasted it she was Chinese. At the same time, he was a chemist from whom he had sought potassium cyanide. The chemist said that "Yesterday a servant came to me to take potassium cyanide, I thought that he should not commit suicide, so I gave him sugar powder."
Jagadish Chandra Basu continued to innovate, taking leave from college in 1915 and setting up the "Bose Institute" almost two years later. Which is famous as 'Bose Science Temple'. In 1917, the government awarded him the title of Sir.
Sir Jagdish Chandra Basu was not only a great scientist, but he was also a good writer and skilled speaker of the Bengali language. Science lived in his breath. On November 23, 1937, this science of science left the world and went to the hereafter. Even today, the name of Sir Jagdish Chandra Basu, who has made India proud in the scientific world, is written in golden letters. Such personalities are always immortal.
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