Jagadish Chandra Bose became the first native Indian professor of physics at which institution?

Presidency College, Calcutta. Presidency College, Calcutta, is the answer. Bose joined it as a teacher of physics after Cambridge. He began his career as a teacher and researcher there. He did his radio experiments in a tiny room at the college. The Bose Institute came later, in 1917. London and Cambridge were where he studied. Memory hook: Bose began at Presidency. Read more: Bose Institute, Satyendra Nath Bose, Achievements of Indians in Science and Technology.

In which year did Bose dedicate the Bose Institute to the nation?

1917. The year 1917 is the answer. Bose opened the Institute in Kolkata on 30 November 1917. That was his 60th birthday. He called it not merely a laboratory but a temple. He had retired from Presidency College in 1915. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1920. Memory hook: 1917 is the Institute. Read more: Bose Institute, Satyendra Nath Bose, Achievements of Indians in Science and Technology.

Which instrument of Bose could magnify tiny plant movements about ten million times?

Crescograph. The crescograph is the answer. It made the slow growth of a plant easy to see and measure. Banglapedia gives the magnification as ten million times. The coherer was his radio detector. The transpirograph and the conductivity balance were his other plant instruments. Memory hook: cresc means grow. Read more: Bose Institute, Satyendra Nath Bose, Achievements of Indians in Science and Technology.

According to the IEEE, where did Bose give his 1895 demonstration with a bell and gunpowder?

Presidency College, Calcutta. Presidency College, Calcutta, is the answer. The IEEE says the waves passed through two walls over 23 metres. They rang a bell and set off gunpowder. The Royal Institution was where he spoke in London in 1897. The Bose Institute did not exist until 1917. Memory hook: the wireless show was at Presidency. Read more: Bose Institute, Satyendra Nath Bose, Achievements of Indians in Science and Technology.

Bose dedicated his 1926 book The Nervous Mechanism of Plants to which famous person?

Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore is the answer. The poet was Bose's friend. He was also Asia's first Nobel laureate. Sister Nivedita wrote about the hardships Bose faced. Father Lafont inspired his early interest in science. Memory hook: the 1926 plant book honours Tagore. Read more: Bose Institute, Satyendra Nath Bose, Achievements of Indians in Science and Technology.

In which year was Bose elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London?

1920. The year 1920 is the answer. Banglapedia says he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society that year. He was knighted in 1916. In 1928 he joined the Vienna Academy of Science as a corresponding member. He presided over the Indian Science Congress in 1927. Memory hook: 1920 is the Royal Society. Read more: Bose Institute, Satyendra Nath Bose, Achievements of Indians in Science and Technology.

What did Bose notice about his coherer that pushed him towards studying living things?

It tired after use and recovered after rest. It tired after use and recovered after rest is the answer. Bose saw the same pattern in living tissue. This led him to study how living and non-living things respond to a push. He ran these studies from 1899 to 1907. The other options are not in the record. Memory hook: tired coherer, tired tissue. Read more: Bose Institute, Satyendra Nath Bose, Achievements of Indians in Science and Technology.

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