J C Bose The Little Known Story of How India’s First Biophysicist Proved Plants Have Life

A famous experiment conducted by Bose at the Royal Society of London in 1901 demonstrated that just like humans, plants too have feelings. He placed a plant in a vessel containing bromide solution, which is poisonous. Using his instrument, he showed on a screen how the plant responded to the poison. “What happens if you take a rich magistrate's son and make him learn in a village school sitting besides the sons of servants and fishermen He'll hear tales of birds and animals that make him curious about Nature. And that makes him one of India's first scientists.” – Jagdish Chandra BoseIn 1914, a journalist for The Nation wrote about an experiment he witnessed in a small private laboratory in Maida Vale in London “An unfortunate creature is strapped to the table of an unlicensed vivisector. When the subject is pinched with a pair of forceps, it winces. It is so strapped that its electric shudder of pain pulls the long arm of a very delicate lever that actuates a tiny mirror. This casts a beam of light on the frieze at the other end of the room, and thus enormously exaggerates the tremor of the creature. A pinch near the right hand tube sends the beam 7 or 8 feet to the right, and a stab near the other wire sends it as far to the left. Veenu Agarwal | AK Agarwal "J C Bose: The Little Known Story of How India's First Biophysicist Proved Plants Have Life" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-4 , June 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd49964.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/biological-science/botany/49964/j-c-bose-the-little-known-story-of-how-india's-first-biophysicist-proved-plants-have-life/veenu-agarwal