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Indian research institution
Bose Institute
(or
Basu Bigyan Mandir
) is a premier public
research institute
of India and also one of its oldest.
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The Bose Institute Kolkata is a Tier 1 Natural Science Research Institute in India, sharing the podium with India's top natural science research institutes viz.,
IISER Kolkata
,
IISc Bengaluru
,
NCBS Bengaluru
and
IIT Bombay
. The institute was established in 1917 by
Acharya Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose
, the father of modern scientific research in the
Indian subcontinent
. Bose was its director for the first twenty years till his demise.
Debendra Mohan Bose
, who succeeded the Nobel laureate
Sir CV Raman
as Palit Professor of Physics at the
University of Calcutta
, was the director of Bose Institute for the next thirty years. The institute pioneered the concept of interdisciplinary research in Asia and India in sync with global trends.
Academics
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Research
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Current concentration of research is in the fields of
physics
,
chemistry
,
plant biology
,
microbiology
,
molecular medicine
,
biochemistry
,
biophysics
,
bioinformatics
and
environmental science
. The institute pioneered the concept of interdisciplinary research in Asia and India in sync with global trends. The pioneering work of
Jagadish Chandra Bose
at the dawn of Bose institute on the effect of stimuli in plants was helpful in the establishment of the electrical nature of the conduction of various stimuli in plants. The institute has contributed to extremely important discoveries and has been home to internationally renowned researchers like
Sambhu Nath De
(discoverer of the
cholera toxin
),
Debendra Mohan Bose
(
who pioneered the use of photographic emulsion plates in particle physics as attested by the Nobel laureate Sir C. F. Powell
) along with
Bhibha Chowdhuri
and others,
Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya
, Shyamadas Chatterjee (
known for research on fusion
) etc.
Directors
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- Jagadish Chandra Bose
, 1917?1937
- Debendra Mohan Bose
, 1937?1967
- Sourindra Mohan Sircar
, 1967?1975
- Sushil Kumar Mukherjee, 1976
- S.C. Bhattacharyya
, 1977?1984
- Birendra Bijoy Biswas
, 1985?1990
- P.K. Roy, 1992?2000
- Maqsood Siddiqui, 2001?2005
- Sibaji Raha, 2006?2016
- Uday Bandyopadhyay, 2019?present
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Museum
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Jagadish Chandra Bose
himself started the display of his instruments which, as a continuous process, made their way into the present museum in the year 1986?87. The main purpose of this technological museum is to display and maintain some of the instruments designed, made and used by Sir J. C. Bose, his personal belongings and memorabilia. The museum is housed in the main campus at 93/1 A. P. C. road (formerly Upper Circular road) and is open on all weekdays.
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Funding
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Bose institute is funded by
Department of Science and Technology
, Govt of India.
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Notable researchers
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