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Authorised form of nameBose; Sir; Jagadis Chunder (1858 - 1937)
Other forms of nameJagadish Chandra
Dates1858 - 1937
NationalityIndian
Place of birthMymensingh, Bangladesh
Date of birth30 November 1858
Place of deathGiridih, India
Date of death23/11/1937
Research fieldPhysics
Comparative physiology
ActivityEducation:
MA (Camb); DSc (Lond)
Honours:
CIE CSI Kt 1917
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election13/05/1920
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 3-12, plate, by M N Saha
References:
Subrata Dasgupta, 'Jagadis Bose, Augustus Waller and the Discovery of "Vegetable Electricity"' in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 307-322
R Singh 'India's Physics and Chemistry Nobel Prize nominators and nominees in colonial and international context' NR 2007 Vol 61 pp 333-346
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/30320858
CodeNA7962
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1920/02Bose, Sir Jagadis Chunder: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/24/427Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor [Jagadis Chunder] Bose, [Fellow of the Royal Society]15 May 1902
NLB/13/386Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons13 August 1896
AP/74/9Unpublished paper, 'On an artificial retina and on a theory of vision' by Jagadis Chunder Bose1900
RR/22/17Referee's report by Henry Horatio Dixon, on a paper 'Transmission of death excitation in plants' by Jagadis Chunder BoseJanuary 1916
RR/15/158Second letter from William Dobinson Halliburton, on a paper 'The electric response of inorganic substances. Preliminary notice' by Jagadis Chunder Bose to Robert Frederick William Harrison10 June 1901
RR/15/161Referee's report by the Secretaries of the Royal Society, on a paper 'The electric response of inorganic substances. Preliminary notice' by Jagadis Chunder BoseJune 1901
NLB/20/717Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society22 June 1900
RR/15/156Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'The electric response of inorganic substances. Preliminary notice' by Jagadis Chunder Bose6 June 1901
RR/22/20Referee's report by William Maddock Bayliss, on a paper 'Physiological investigations with Petiole-Pulvinus preparations Mimosa pudica' by Jagadis Chunder Bose and Surendra Chandra DasJanuary 1916
RR/16/11Referee's report by Francis Darwin, on a paper 'Mechanical and electrical response in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose[February 1904]
RR/16/19Second referee's report by William Maddock Bayliss, on a paper 'Mechanical and electrical response in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose21 November 1904
RR/16/17Second referee's report by Edward Waymouth Reid, on a paper 'Mechanical and electrical response in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose6 October 1904
AP/76/1/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On mechanical and electrical response in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose1903
AP/76/1Unpublished paper, 'On mechanical and electrical response in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose1903
NLB/26/554Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor [Jagadis Chunder] Bose, Presidency College, Calcutta20 April 1903
RR/19/15Referee's report by Francis Wall Oliver, on a paper 'An automatic method for the investigation of velocity of transmission of excitation in mimosa' by Jagadish Chandra Bose[September 1912]
NLB/15/456Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Silvanus Phillips Thompson, [Fellow of the Royal Society]6 October 1897
NLB/15/455Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, Fellow of the Royal Society6 October 1897
NLB/21/522Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, [Fellow of the Royal Society], 33 Powis Square3 December 1900
NLB/23/2/508Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose21 June 1904
NLB/20/154Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, [Fellow of the Royal Society]16 February 1900
NLB/20/92Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society 30 January 1900
NLB/20/140Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, Presidency College, Calcutta12 February 1900
NLB/21/509Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society29 November 1900
NLB/21/105Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons, St Martin's Lane28 July 1900
NLB/20/808Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Carey Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society12 July 1900
NLB/20/796Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Dobinson Halliburton, Fellow of the Royal Society11 July 1900
NLB/21/387Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, Fellow of the Royal Society9 November 1900
NLB/21/406Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, [Fellow of the Royal Society], 33 Powis Square, W.13 November 1900
NLB/22/453Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Jagadis Chunder] Bose, Fellow of the Royal Society16 May 1901
NLB/21/636Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, 33 Powis Square, W.20 December 1900
NLB/21/523Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, [Fellow of the Royal Society]3 December 1900
NLB/22/559Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Jagdis Chunder] Bose, [Fellow of the Royal Society], 21a High Street, Wimbledon, S.W.4 June 1901
NLB/23/1/288Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, 21a High Street, Wimbledon, S.W.21 October 1901
NLB/23/1/156Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, 21a High Street, Wimbledon3 October 1901
NLB/23/1/213Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Jagadis Chunder Bose, [Fellow of the Royal Society]8 October 1901
RR/15/157Letter from William Dobinson Halliburton, on a paper 'The electric response of inorganic substances. Preliminary notice' by Jagadis Chunder Bose to Robert Frederick William Harrison7 June 1901
NLB/24/254Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, [Fellow of the Royal Society], 1 Birch Grove, Acton, W.11 April 1902
NLB/24/370Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, 1 Birch Grove, Acton5 May 1902
NLB/24/586Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, Fellow of the Royal Society5 June 1902
NLB/24/649Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Lord Rayleigh, Fellow of the Royal Society11 June 1902
AP/76/1/2Unpublished diagrams, experimental apparatus and results by Jagadis Chunder Bose1903
NLB/24/823Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Institution, Albemarle18 July 1902
NLB/26/338Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, [Fellow of the Royal Society]4 March 1903
NLB/29/133Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, Presidency College, Calcutta11 July 1904
NLB/28/371Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sidney Howard Vines, Fellow of the Royal Society25 February 1904
NLB/28/368Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison], to Professor William Dobinson Halliburton, Fellow of the Royal Society24 February 1904
NLB/29/300Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Presidency College, Calcutta12 September 1904
NLB/29/526Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, Fellow of the Royal Society, Presidency College, Calcutta31 October 1904
NLB/58/595Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, FRS27 May 1920
NLB/50/240Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Jagadis Chunder] Bose, 136 Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale, W.28 May 1914
NLB/50/278Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Jagadis Chunder] Bose, 136 Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale, W.9 June 1914
NLB/52/275Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Sidney Howard Vines, FRS1 November 1915
RR/22/19Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Physiological investigations with Petiole-Pulvinus preparations Mimosa pudica' by Jagadis Chunder Bose and Surendra Chandra DasDecember 1915
RR/26/17Referee's report by Harold William Taylor Wager, on a paper 'The dia-heliotropic attitude of leaves as determined by transmitted nervous excitation' by Jagadis Chunder Bose and Satyendra Chandra Guha15 June 1921
RR/24/12Referee's report by William Maddock Bayliss, on a paper 'Researches on growth and movement in plants by means of the high magnification crescograph' by Jagadis Chunder Bose[November 1917]
NLB/58/839Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Jagadis [Chunder] Bose, FRS24 June 1920
NLB/59/727Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Jagadis [Chunder] Bose, FRS5 November 1920
NLB/58/683Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Jagadis [Chunder] Bose, FRS4 June 1920
RR/22/18Referee's report by William Maddock Bayliss, on a paper 'Transmission of death excitation in plants' by Jagadis Chunder BoseJanuary 1916
NLB/58/772Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Jagadis [Chunder] Bose, FRS17 June 1920
NLB/58/766Copy letter from [William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Sir Jagadis [Chunder] Bose, FRS[17 June 1920]
RR/32/25Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'Physiological and anatomical investigations on mimosa pudica' by Jagadis Chunder BoseMay 1925
NLB/59/534Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Jagadis [Chunder] Bose, FRS13 October 1920
NLB/20/776Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Dobinson Halliburton, Fellow of the Royal Society6 July 1900
NLB/61/391Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Jagadis Chunder] Bose, FRS1 July 1921
NLB/62/380Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Jagadis Chunder] Bose, FRS2 February 1922
NLB/62/507Copy letter from Wiliam Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Jagadis [Chunder] Bose, FRS24 February 1922
NLB/68/134Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sidney Howard] Vines, FRS15 May 1925
NLB/57/881Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to unknown correspondent26 February 1920
NLB/65/564Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Jagadis Chunder] Bose, FRS19 November 1923
NLB/64/525Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Jagadis Chunder] Bose, FRS26 April 1923
NLB/67/635Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS4 February 1925
NLB/67/401Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Albert Charles] Seward, FRS15 December 1924
NLB/67/716Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS19 February 1925
NLB/66/585Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Jagadis Bose, C.S.I, FRS31 May 1924
NLB/68/106Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Frederick Frost] Blackman, FRS12 May 1925
NLB/68/10Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Vernon Herbert] Blackman, FRS27 April 1925
NLB/13/405Copy letter from A H White, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], [Secretary, Royal Society]21 August 1896
MC/18Volume 18 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1903
NLB/13/71Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society5 June 1896
RR/15/306Letter from Jagadis Chunder Bose, on his paper 'Electro-molecular wave' to Joseph Larmor12 April 1902
RR/16/12Referee's report by William Maddock Bayliss, on a paper 'Mechanical and electrical response in plants' by Jagadis Chunder BoseMarch 1904
RR/16/20Third referee's report by Edward Waymouth Reid, on a paper 'Mechanical and electrical response in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose26 November 1904
RR/16/16Referee's report by Edward Waymouth Reid, on a paper 'Mechanical and electrical response in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose11 June 1904
NLB/23/2/91Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor [Jagadis Chunder] Bose, Fellow of the Royal Society25 June 1901
AP/74/12Paper, 'On the similarities between the radiation and mechanical strains' by Jagadis Chunder Bose1900
NLB/24/122Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Davy Faraday Laboratory5 March 1902
NLB/50/815Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Jagadis Chunder] Bose, 8 Marine Parade, Eastbourne11 November 1914
RR/22/16Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Transmission of death excitation in plants' by Jagadis Chunder BoseDecember 1915
NLB/60/585Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Jagadis [Chunder] Bose, FRS26 February 1921
NLB/67/675Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Jagadis [Chunder] Bose, FRS12 February 1925
RR/15/159Referee's report by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on a paper 'The electric response of inorganic substances. Preliminary notice' by Jagadis Chunder Bose13 June 1901
RR/16/14Referee's report by William Maddock Bayliss, on a paper 'Mechanical and electrical response in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose18 May 1904
NLB/30/226Copy letter from the Chairman of the Physiology Sectional Committee, to Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose, [Fellow of the Royal Society]15 February 1905
RR/16/15Letter from Archibald Geikie, on a paper 'Mechanical and electrical response in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose to Edward Waymouth Reid23 May 1904
RR/15/17Memoranda from Robert William Harrison, and reply from George Carey Foster, on a paper 'An artificial retina and the theory of vision' by Jagadish Chunder Bose12 July 1900
AP/79/5Unpublished paper, 'On transmission of death-excitation in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose1915
RR/15/16Referee's report by Augustus Desire Waller, on a paper 'An artificial retina and the theory of vision' by Jagadish Chunder Bose10 July 1900
RR/15/162Referee's report by Oliver Lodge, on three papers 'The continuity of effect of light and electric radiation on matter', 'On the similarities between radiation and mechanical strains', and 'On the strain theory of photographic action' by Jagadis Chunder Bose4 June 1901
RR/15/307Referee's report by Arnold William Reinold, on a paper 'Electro-molecular wave' by Jagadis Chunder Bose23 April 1902
RR/16/13Referee's report by Edward Waymouth Reid, on a paper 'Mechanical and electrical response in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose[March 1904]
RR/16/10Referee's report by John Scott Burdon Sanderson, on a paper 'Mechanical and electrical response in plants' by Jagadis Chunder BoseFebruary 1904
RR/26/158Referee's report by Harold William Taylor Wager, on a paper 'On cellular pulsations in the maintenance of the ascent of sap' by Jagadish Chandra Bose20 January 1922
AP/75/10Paper, 'On electro-molecular wave' by Jagadis Chunder Bose1902
AP/75/7/2Unpublished diagrams, experimental apparatus and results by Jagadis Chunder Bose1901
AP/75/10/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On electro-molecular wave' by Jagadis Chunder Bose1902
AP/75/10/3Unpublished photographs, experimental results by Jagadis Chunder Bose1902
AP/75/7/1Unpublished paper, 'On the electric response of organic substances' by Jagadis Chunder Bose1901
AP/76/4Unpublished paper, 'Note on a paper "On mechanical and electrical response in plants" by Jagadis Chunder Bose, Professor, Presidency College, Calcutta' by Augustus D Waller1904
NLB/23/2/113Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Jagadis Chunder Bose, [Fellow of the Royal Society], 21a High Street, Wiimbledon, S.W.27 July 1901
AP/74/13Unpublished paper, 'On the continuity of effect of electric radiation and light on matter and on the molecular strain theory of photographic action' by Jagadis Chunder Bose1900
RR/15/303Referee's report by Shelford Bidwell, on a paper 'Electro-molecular wave' by Jagadis Chunder Bose25 March 1902
RR/15/304Letter from George James Burch, on a paper 'Electro-molecular wave' by Jagadis Chunder Bose to Joseph LarmorApril 1902
RR/21/28Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'The influence of homodromous and heterodromous electric currents on transmission of excitation in plant and animal' by Jagadis Chunder Bose8 July 1914
AP/75/7Unpublished paper, 'On the electric response of organic substances' by Jagadis Chunder Bose1901
AP/75/10/2Unpublished diagrams, experimental apparatus and results by Jagadis Chunder Bose1902
RR/15/15Referee's report by John Ambrose Fleming, on a paper 'An artificial retina and the theory of vision' by Jagadish Chunder Bose26 June 1900
RR/15/160Referee's report and letter from George James Burch, on a paper 'The electric response of inorganic substances. Preliminary notice' by Jagadis Chunder Bose to Arthur William RuckerJune 1901
RR/15/18Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on two papers 'On the continuity of effect of electric radiation and light on matter, and on the molecular strain theory of photographic action', and 'On the similarities between the radiation and mechanical strain' by Jagadish Chunder Bose2 December 1900
RR/15/305Referee's report by George James Burch, on a paper 'Electro-molecular wave' by Jagadis Chunder BoseApril 1902
RR/16/18Referee's report by William Maddock Bayliss, on a paper 'Mechanical and electrical response in plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose28 October 1904
RR/19/13Referee's report by Francis Gotch, on a paper 'An automatic method for the investigation of velocity of transmission of excitation in mimosa' by Jagadish Chandra Bose[July 1912]
RR/19/14Referee's report by William Maddock Bayliss, on a paper 'An automatic method for the investigation of velocity of transmission of excitation in mimosa' by Jagadish Chandra Bose[1912]
RR/21/27Referee's report by Ernest Henry Starling, on a paper 'The influence of homodromous and heterodromous electric currents on transmission of excitation in plant and animal' by Jagadis Chunder Bosend [1914]
RR/24/13Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'Researches on growth and movement in plants by means of the high magnification crescograph' by Jagadis Chunder Bose[December 1917]
RR/24/14Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'Researches on growth and movement in plants by means of the high magnification crescograph' by Jagadis Chunder Bose31 December 1917
RR/26/157Referee's report by Henry Hallett Dale, on a paper 'On cellular pulsations in the maintenance of the ascent of sap' by Jagadish Chandra Bose[December 1921]
RR/28/66Referee's report by Frederick Frost Blackman, on a paper 'New method for accurate determination of photosynthetic desposit of carbohydrates in living plants' by Jagadis Chunder Bose and N C Naq23 June 1923
MC/18/104Copy of a letter from William Huggins, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to Lord George Hamilton21 February 1903
MC/18/122Letter from George Hamilton, India Office, Whitehall, to Sir William Huggins, President of the Royal Society16 February 1903
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