Bose Institute (or Basu Bigyan Mandir) is a premier public

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of India for biological sciences and also one of its oldest. 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., Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, IISc Bengaluru, NCBS Bengaluru and

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. The institute was established on 30 November 1917 by Acharya Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, the father of modern scientific research in the

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. 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

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, 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

Research

Current concentration of research is in the fields of

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, plant biology,

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, molecular medicine,

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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.

Museum

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.Official Website of the J.C. Bose Science Heritage Museum
, ''Services Page''

Funding

Bose institute is funded by Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India. Bose Institute - Kolkata 7354

Notable researchers

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References

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