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- Jagadish Chandra Bose is considered the father of Bengali science fiction.
- He invented the crescograph.
- He was born on 30 November 1858 and died on 23 November 1937.
- He was a biologist, physicist, botanist and an early writer of science fiction
- He earned a degree from Cambridge University.
- He proved by experimentation that both animals and plants share much in common.
- He was raised in a home committed to pure Indian traditions and culture.
- He authored two illustrious books; ‘Response in the Living and Non-living’ (1902) and ‘The Nervous Mechanism of Plants’ (1926).
- He was elected as the Fellow of the Royal Society in 1920
- He is regarded as India’s first modern scientist.