Posted by: crawlingdutchman on: November 4, 2008
Salim All, being a married man now, needed some job to maintain his family. Luckily, his wife had a job and therefore things were going on smoothly. Now, Ali would sit under the trees at the backyard of his house, and note down the activities of a weaver- bird. In 1930, he published an essay depicting the nature and habitats of the weaver-bird. This essay appeared to be like a research paper. This brought him fame and name in the field of Orinthology. After this, he started travelling to different places to study birds. Salim All didnot accept blindly the different notions about birds, formed by others. He would himself observe, make first-hand information based upon what he observed.
Posted by: crawlingdutchman on: November 1, 2008
Salim Ali was found to have so much of enthusiasm about the birds as an adult would have. With the guidance of Millard, the boy Ali started to learn about identifying and preserving birds.
After his return from Burma, Salim did course of study in zoology by which he got the job of a guide at the museum of the Bombay National History Society. This job enabled Salim All to become more and more eager to study the living conditions of birds. He, therefore, went to Germany and came in contact with Dr. Irwin Strassman. After his return to India, Ali had to settle in the streets for his living.
Posted by: crawlingdutchman on: October 30, 2008
Salim All was born on 12th November, 1896 in Khethwadi in the Bombay Province. Although he studied in a college, he did not obtain any University Degree. He went to Burma to help his brother in wolfram driving. In Burma, Salim looked for birds than for wolfram; he returned to Bombay in 1920.
Salim’s interest in bird-watching was due to an incident that took place in his boyhood when he shot a house-sparrow-like bird; he saw a yellow patch on the throat of the dead bird. This puzzled the young boy who went to his uncle for clarification. His uncle took him to Mr. W.S. Millard, the Honourary Secretary of the Bombay Natural History Society.
Posted by: crawlingdutchman on: October 25, 2008
Salim Ali was a world-renowned Naturalist and an Ornithologist (birds watcher) and Patron of Bombay Natural History Society. Salim Ali’s works on birds are marvelous works on birds and their habitats.
Salim Ali was the friend and god-father of birds. He not only studied birds, but also worked in the field of Protection of Nature.
Salim said once that if Nature has to be protected, birds have to be protected.
Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali became Salim Ali, the Bird Watcher after he wrote his famous works: ‘Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan’, ‘The Fall of Sparrow’ – an Autobiography depicting certain important incidents in his life.
Posted by: crawlingdutchman on: October 23, 2008
On receiving the award, thanking the Citizen’s Forum, Bose uttered these memorable words:
‘Life in all beings is the same. So also the entire human race belongs to one kind for its existence. Co-existence, tolerance to other living beings must be practiced. It is not good for each nation to live with mutual distrust’
Bose had shone forth in the sky of the scientific world and his physical existence came to an end on the 23rd of November, 1937 leaving behind him the spirit of courage, adventure, patriotism, confidence and perverseness with which he lived, worked and achieved tremendous success in all the scientific marvels he created.
Posted by: crawlingdutchman on: October 18, 2008
With his indigenous apparatus, Bose conducted many demonstrations of his studies on plants. For his outstanding contributions to the world of plants. J.C. Bose was elected the Fellow of the Royal Society Society in 1920.
Bose was not only a scientist of outstanding investigations, he was a lover of arts and literature also. He had close contacts with the world famous Indian Poet Rabindranath Tagore. Bose founded the Bose Institute at Calcutta where facilities to conduct research work on several subjects have been provided. In 1928, the citizens of Calcutta honored him for several of his achievements in science, especially on the life and activities of plants.
Posted by: crawlingdutchman on: October 16, 2008
J.C. Bose was the author of two world-famous books entitled ‘Response in the Living and the Non-Living’ and ‘The Nervous Mechanism of Plants’. Through these works, Bose proved that plants are also sensitive to heat, cold, light, noise and other external stimuli, as humans are. Bose showed through an experiment with Bromide, a poison, when injected into a live plant, its condition would be exactly similar to that of a rat injected with the same poison in struggling against death. The whole world greeted this finding with thunderous applause. In 1915, in the London Royal Society, much with pride as an Indian Scientist, Bose spoke to the audience about the tolerance that the plants endured to external stimuli.
Posted by: crawlingdutchman on: October 11, 2008
He is credited with inventing a wireless transmission system that went unrecognized, much before Marconi. Bose also produced a compact apparatus for generating electro-magnetic waves of wave-length from 22 mm to 5mm and the study of their quasi-optical properties. He also discovered the common nature of electric response to all forms of stimulation. He was the first in the world to fabricate the device that generated micro-waves of very short wave-length. Bose’s studies on molecular strain and recovery led him to a new photographic theory. Some credit for the early revolutionary thinking to point to the direction of computer science and technology has to go to J.C. Bose.
Posted by: crawlingdutchman on: October 9, 2008
Jagadish Chandra Bose was offered the job of a lecturer in physics in the Presidency College, Calcutta on a salary of 2/3 the salary that a European was offered in those days for he was an Indian and Indians were, in general, backward in scientific knowledge. Bose believed that Indians were in no way intellectually inferior to any European scientist and he proved this to the college authorities which enabled him to draw full salary later and with this accumulated salary, Bose established his own laboratory and conducted many scientific investigations in Botany and in Physics. Being basically a physicist, he did a lot of work on radio-waves.
Posted by: crawlingdutchman on: October 4, 2008
His father too wanted his son to be an I.C.S. officer. On the other hand, he wanted him to become highly educated and to be a teacher to serve the community and the country. While in London, Bose showed much inclination to study botany and zoology though he studied science and medicine for his B.Sc. degree. At this point of time in London, J .C. Bose came into contact with a scientist by name Lord Rele. His association with Rele and subsequently with his guidance. Jagadish Bose, could develop further more interest in the studies of plants.
