REFLECTION ON THE HISTORY, HOPE AND HYPE OF BOSE INSTITUTE

摘要

To start with the reflection on the history of Bose Insititute, I must begin with Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose. Returning to Calcutta from Cambridge, Bose joined Presidency College as a Professor of Physics in 1885. While science in the modern post-Newtonian sense was then being taught at a number of institutions and colleges in Calcutta and elsewhere, research in the experimental natural sciences was nonexistent in India at the time Bose took up his appointment. Indeed by starting his researches on the nature of radiowaves in 1894, Bose became literally pioneer and founding father of modern physical and biophysical research in this country.