India-born American physicist-philanthropist, Mani Bhaumik, donates one million US dollars, to honour the work of J C Bose, the Indian scientist whose work on wireless telegraphy was ignored for long by the West. A medal and an honorarium would be awarded to promising young scientists starting 2025
NEW DELHI: Recognition and appreciation comes late to scientist and inventor Jagadish Chandra Bose, who invented the detector for wireless telegraphy.Italian inventor and engineer G Marconi used this for his historic demonstration of the first ever trans-Atlantic radio telegraphy, and was awarded the Nobel prize in Physics. Since he did not mention Bose — without whose invention Marconi could not have won recognition and accolades –Bose’s vital contribution remained hidden. The failure to give credit to Bose has long irked scientists in India familiar with Bose’s work.
Efforts to publicly acknowledge the valuable contributions of Bose began when The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), located in New York City, placed a memorial plaque in Kolkata, at the Presidency College, now a university, where Bose came up with his ground-breaking invention. And now, with their intense lobbying and with special effort put in by Prof S V Sankaran of the Indian Institute of Science and Technology, Bengaluru, the IEEE has decided to establish a prestigious medal and award named the Jagadish Chandra Bose Medal. However, to sponsor the medal and award in perpetuity, IEEE needed to come up with one million US dollars. Mani Bhaumik has offered to donate the entire amount.
Benghal-born Mani Bhaumik, who lives in Los Angeles, holds numerous patents and is considerably wealthy; he is the inventor of the laser technology that paved the way for Lasik eye surgery. Bhaumik says he feels his domination is a way of paying back for all that he gained from his teacher and mentor, Satyendra Nath Bose of the Bose-Einstein statistics fame who was a student of J C Bose.
The president and CEO of IEEE, Saifur Rehman, will make the announcement establishing the prestigious J C Bose Medal at a congressional reception to be held on January 12 at the Rayburn building of the US Capitol. The medal will be known officially as the IEEE Jagadish Chandra Bose Medal in Wireless Communications.
It will be presented to an individual or a team of up to three and the scope will be for contributions to wireless communications technologies with a global impact. The nomination deadline is June 15. The award consists of a bronze medal, a certificate, and an honorarium.
The first award will be given in 2025.
Bhaumik says his journey from a poor family in Bengal to UCLA via IIT Kharagpur taught him how transformational education can be. And that his donations to UCLA, to IIT Kanpur and for the Bose medal and honorarium are aimed at nurturing talent and scientific spirit.
NEW DELHI: Recognition and appreciation comes late to scientist and inventor Jagadish Chandra Bose, who invented the detector for wireless telegraphy.Italian inventor and engineer G Marconi used this for his historic demonstration of the first ever trans-Atlantic radio telegraphy, and was awarded the Nobel prize in Physics. Since he did not mention Bose — without whose invention Marconi could not have won recognition and accolades –Bose’s vital contribution remained hidden. The failure to give credit to Bose has long irked scientists in India familiar with Bose’s work.
Efforts to publicly acknowledge the valuable contributions of Bose began when The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), located in New York City, placed a memorial plaque in Kolkata, at the Presidency College, now a university, where Bose came up with his ground-breaking invention. And now, with their intense lobbying and with special effort put in by Prof S V Sankaran of the Indian Institute of Science and Technology, Bengaluru, the IEEE has decided to establish a prestigious medal and award named the Jagadish Chandra Bose Medal. However, to sponsor the medal and award in perpetuity, IEEE needed to come up with one million US dollars. Mani Bhaumik has offered to donate the entire amount.
Benghal-born Mani Bhaumik, who lives in Los Angeles, holds numerous patents and is considerably wealthy; he is the inventor of the laser technology that paved the way for Lasik eye surgery. Bhaumik says he feels his domination is a way of paying back for all that he gained from his teacher and mentor, Satyendra Nath Bose of the Bose-Einstein statistics fame who was a student of J C Bose.
The president and CEO of IEEE, Saifur Rehman, will make the announcement establishing the prestigious J C Bose Medal at a congressional reception to be held on January 12 at the Rayburn building of the US Capitol. The medal will be known officially as the IEEE Jagadish Chandra Bose Medal in Wireless Communications.
It will be presented to an individual or a team of up to three and the scope will be for contributions to wireless communications technologies with a global impact. The nomination deadline is June 15. The award consists of a bronze medal, a certificate, and an honorarium.
The first award will be given in 2025.
Bhaumik says his journey from a poor family in Bengal to UCLA via IIT Kharagpur taught him how transformational education can be. And that his donations to UCLA, to IIT Kanpur and for the Bose medal and honorarium are aimed at nurturing talent and scientific spirit.