Scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose's face will be printed on its new 50-pound note. Proud moment for Bengali people
The news that UK citizens have nominated Bengali scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose among quite 800 other scientists within the Bank of England’s look for new face to be printed on its new 50-pound note has generated tons of enthusiasm in Bangladesh and India also .
The Bank of England released the list of nominees on November 26, which incorporates names of great scientists like Hawking, computing pioneers Turing and Ada Lovelace, telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell and astronomer Patrick Moore.
Newspapers have since published articles and analysis on the list of nominees anticipating that the ultimate selection criteria are going to be stricter in finalising a face from the long list of contenders.
The list of nominees is that the results of a call from the Bank of England to its citizens to nominate individual who must be real, deceased and have contributed to the sector of science within the UK.
BBC reported that the Bank received 174,112 nominations, of which 1,14,000 met the eligibility criteria, including over 600 men and almost 200 women.
According to the BBC, Bose is competing against penicillin discoverer Fleming , father of recent epidemiology John Snow, naturalist and zookeeper Gerald Durrell, fossil pioneer Mary Anning, British-Jamaican business woman and nursing pioneer Mary Seacole and erstwhile UK prime minister Thatcher .
BBC said that Thatcher studied at Oxford University and worked as a food research chemist after completing her graduation.
The nomination deadline will expire on December 14 after which a shortlist of potential candidates is predicted to return from the Bank’s Banknote Character Advisory Committee.
BBC names the members of the committee drawing up the shortlist as space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock, author and genetics expert Emily Grossman, editor of British Journal for the History of Science Simon Schaffer, and theoretical and particle physicist Simon Singh.
Bose, who was born at Rarikhal of Bikrampur in Munshiganj in 1858, may be a polymath. he's known for inventing radio and is additionally credited with proving that animals and plants are as alive as citizenry .
He also designed and made the subtle instrument, crescograph, to live the expansion in plants.
Bose studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge after graduating from Calcutta University with a physics degree. In 1884, he returned to India to show at Presidency College in Kolkata.
A creative man to the core, Bose’s field of labor expanded from science to archaeology to literature. actually he's considered the daddy of fantasy in Bengal also as within the British India.
The story of his ascend through the ladder of glory looks like a fairy tale coming to life. Despite being the son of a government employee on British India, his father sent Bose to review at a vernacular school, Mymensingh Zila School, to find out Bengali.
He had to visit Kolkata to pursue higher study intrinsically opportunities were absent back home. After he came back from Cambridge to show in Kolkata, he came across financial crisis and lack of supply of instruments while pursuing research project . Still, he succeeded in his venture.
Reflecting on his childhood, at a lecture in 1915, Bose remembered how his scientific interest in nature was shaped in his childhood. within the school he studied was employed by underprivileged section of society. He remembered hearing from his classmates, sons of fishermen, stories about fishes, birds and trees.
At his birthplace at Rarikhal, where Bose was born, a posh has been built to recollect the scientist.
According to BBC, first introduced in 1981, there are 330m £50 notes in circulation with a combined value of £16.5bn.
Going against involve not printing plastic notes considering its environmental effects, the Bank decided to print it on polymer to stop forgery.
The note is probably going to travel into printing in 2020.
The Bank of England released the list of nominees on November 26, which incorporates names of great scientists like Hawking, computing pioneers Turing and Ada Lovelace, telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell and astronomer Patrick Moore.
Newspapers have since published articles and analysis on the list of nominees anticipating that the ultimate selection criteria are going to be stricter in finalising a face from the long list of contenders.
The list of nominees is that the results of a call from the Bank of England to its citizens to nominate individual who must be real, deceased and have contributed to the sector of science within the UK.
BBC reported that the Bank received 174,112 nominations, of which 1,14,000 met the eligibility criteria, including over 600 men and almost 200 women.
According to the BBC, Bose is competing against penicillin discoverer Fleming , father of recent epidemiology John Snow, naturalist and zookeeper Gerald Durrell, fossil pioneer Mary Anning, British-Jamaican business woman and nursing pioneer Mary Seacole and erstwhile UK prime minister Thatcher .
BBC said that Thatcher studied at Oxford University and worked as a food research chemist after completing her graduation.
The nomination deadline will expire on December 14 after which a shortlist of potential candidates is predicted to return from the Bank’s Banknote Character Advisory Committee.
BBC names the members of the committee drawing up the shortlist as space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock, author and genetics expert Emily Grossman, editor of British Journal for the History of Science Simon Schaffer, and theoretical and particle physicist Simon Singh.
Bose, who was born at Rarikhal of Bikrampur in Munshiganj in 1858, may be a polymath. he's known for inventing radio and is additionally credited with proving that animals and plants are as alive as citizenry .
He also designed and made the subtle instrument, crescograph, to live the expansion in plants.
Bose studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge after graduating from Calcutta University with a physics degree. In 1884, he returned to India to show at Presidency College in Kolkata.
A creative man to the core, Bose’s field of labor expanded from science to archaeology to literature. actually he's considered the daddy of fantasy in Bengal also as within the British India.
The story of his ascend through the ladder of glory looks like a fairy tale coming to life. Despite being the son of a government employee on British India, his father sent Bose to review at a vernacular school, Mymensingh Zila School, to find out Bengali.
He had to visit Kolkata to pursue higher study intrinsically opportunities were absent back home. After he came back from Cambridge to show in Kolkata, he came across financial crisis and lack of supply of instruments while pursuing research project . Still, he succeeded in his venture.
Reflecting on his childhood, at a lecture in 1915, Bose remembered how his scientific interest in nature was shaped in his childhood. within the school he studied was employed by underprivileged section of society. He remembered hearing from his classmates, sons of fishermen, stories about fishes, birds and trees.
At his birthplace at Rarikhal, where Bose was born, a posh has been built to recollect the scientist.
According to BBC, first introduced in 1981, there are 330m £50 notes in circulation with a combined value of £16.5bn.
Going against involve not printing plastic notes considering its environmental effects, the Bank decided to print it on polymer to stop forgery.
The note is probably going to travel into printing in 2020.
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