Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (November 30, 1858 – November 23, 1937) was a physicist, who pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics. He is also considered as the father of Bengali science fiction. He was the first Indian to get a US patent, in 1904, although Bose was himself critical of patents.

Jagadish Chandra Bose was born in Mymensinghin (now in Bangladesh) on November 30, 1858. His father, Bhagawan Chandra Bose was a repected leader of the Brahmo Samaj and worked as a tax collector for the British East India Company. His family originally hailed from the village Rarikhal, Bikrampur, in the current day Munshiganj District of Bangladesh.

Having started his studies in a local school, Bose studied at the Hare School and St. Xavier's College, Calcutta at Kolkata. He passed the Entrance examination of Calcutta University in 1875. He received a B.A. in Science from Calcutta University in 1879. Next, Bose went to England to study at Christ's College, Cambridge. He received a B.A. from Cambridge University and a B.Sc. from the London University in 1884. Following that, he returned to Kolkata and joined Presidency College as an assistant professor of physics. He was the first Indian to join Presidency College to teach science and had to face great difficulty in establishing himself. Later he had brilliant colleagues such as Prafulla Chandra Roy. In 1887, he was married to Abala, daughter of the renowned Brahmo reformer Durga Mohan Das.

In November 1894 J.C. Bose ignited gunpowder and rang a bell at a distance using electromagnetic waves, confirming that communication signals can be sent without using wires. This was one year after Nikola Tesla made the first public demonstration of radio communication in 1893. Bose went to London on a lecture tour in 1896 and met Marconi, who was conducting wireless experiments for the British post office. In an interview, Bose said he was not interested in commercial telegraphy and others can use his research work. Later in 1899 Bose announced his invention of the "iron-mercury-iron coherer with telephone detector" in a paper presented at Royal Society, London.

Neville Francis Mott, Nobel Laureate in 1977 for his own contributions to solid-state electronics, remarked that "J.C. Bose was at least 60 years ahead of his time" and "In fact, he had anticipated the existence of P-type and N-type semiconductors."

In 1896, Bose wrote `Niruddesher Kahini' the first major work in Bangla Science Fiction. Later, he added the story in `Obbakto' book as `Polatok Tufan'. He's the first science fiction writer in the Bengali language.