Jagadish Chandra Bose (November 30, 1858 – November 23, 1937) is regarded as India’s first modern scientist. He was a physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist, as well as an early writer of science fiction. He pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics and laid the foundations of experimental science in the Indian subcontinent. IEEE named him one of the fathers of radio science. Bose subsequently made a number of pioneering discoveries in plant physiology. He used his own invention, the crescograph, to measure plant response to various stimuli, and thereby scientifically proved parallelism between animal and plant tissues.