Bose Institute


Bose Institute is a premier public research institute of India for biological sciences and physical sciences and also one of its oldest. The institute was established on 30 November 1917 by Acharya Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, the pioneer 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.

Academics

Research

Current concentration of research is in the fields of biotechnology, plant biology, microbiology, molecular medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics, environmental science and physics. 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, Debendra Mohan Bose along with Bhibha Chowdhuri and others, Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya, Shyamadas Chatterjee etc.
Directors

  • 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, 2019–2024
  • Kaustuv Sanyal, 2024–present

Museum

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 and is open on all weekdays.

Funding

Bose institute is funded by Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India.

Notable researchers

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