One of the prominent founder of modern radio and sonic technology and inventor of Crescograph, Sir Jagdhish Chandra Bose was born 158 years ago on today’s date of 30th November. Google is celebrating this polymath by displaying doodle of his all across the web in India, the US, France and Australia. Crescograph is used to measure plant growth.

Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose was a multi-talented Indian scientist who became a world leader in telecommunications. He was born on 30th November,1858 in Mymensingh, which is now in Bangladesh. He was brought up in a traditional family system.

His primary education was from a vernacular school. Later he went to Cambridge University to conduct a research with Lord Rayleigh, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics. He became the Fellow of the Royale Society in 1920 owing to his enormous contribution.

In the year 1937, Sir Bose built the Bose Institute at Calcutta. To acknowledge his contribution, a small-impact crater in the southern hemisphere of the Moon is named after him.