Jagadish Chandra Bose among the nominees to become the new British bill on 50-pound notes

London: Indian physicist and physiologist Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was revealed on Monday among hundreds of scientists named during the first stage of facial search by the Bank of England on a new ticket from 50 pounds printed from 2020.

Bose, born in Bengal during the British Raj in 1858, would have proved that animals and plants shared much in common because of his early experiments and the creation of a very sophisticated instrument called the crescograph to detect the minute responses of living organisms.

He is appointed alongside one of the world's most renowned physicists, Stephen Hawking, while the Bank of England announced that it had received a total of 174,112 appointments, confirming that the new note would feature a scientist who made a significant contribution to British science.
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It is only the preliminary phase of identification of the eligible names to be taken into account. At this first stage, an application has been deemed eligible simply if the character is real, deceased and has contributed in any way to the field of science in the UK, said the Bank of England in a statement .
Bose studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge after graduating with a degree in Physics from the University of Calcutta. He returned to India in 1884 after obtaining his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Cambridge and was appointed Professor of Physical Sciences at the Presidency College of Kolkata.

In 1917, Bose left his teaching post and founded the Bose Institute in Kolkata, initially devoted primarily to

Bose and black hole experts, Hawking, are confronted by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who qualified as a candidate for the bank's criteria because of his work as a chemist before his political career. . Among the approximately 600 other men and 200 women on the list of first appointments include computer pioneers Alan Turing and Ada Lovelace, phone inventor Alexander Graham Bell and astronomer Patrick Moore.

The discoverer of penicillin Alexander Fleming, father of modern epidemiology John Snow, naturalist the zookeeper Gerald Durrell, the pioneer of fossils Mary Anning and the pioneering Anglo-Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole are among others.

The names, once finalized after the deadline of 14 December for closing the applications, will be examined by the Bank of London. British Advisory Committee on Banknotes.

British bookmakers William Hill choose Hawking as the current favorite, with a score of 7/4, followed by chemist Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel laureate, at 4/1. Lovelace, Turing, Fleming and the electromagnetic pioneer Michael Faraday have a rating of 5/1 and Rosalind Franklin, who has largely contributed to the understanding of the DNA, is at 6/1.

The Bank of England had revealed a few months ago that nominations for the new note may include anyone who has worked in any field of science, including astronomy, science and technology. biology, biotechnology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medical research, physics, technology or zoology.

Until the unveiling of the criteria, a campaign was formed in favor of the Indian espionage Noor Inayat Khan, British spy from the Second World War, on the new currency.

An online petition in favor of Khan drew thousands of signatures, calling the descendant of Tipu Sultan and the daughter of Indian Sufi. Saint Hazrat Inayat Khan to be considered the first British ethnic minority woman to be honored on the currency.

The 50-pound note will be the last remodeled ticket put into circulation, after the bills in the denomination of five and ten have already been reissued in polymer. The new 20-pound polymer bill will come into circulation from 2020, when the 50-pound paper is to be printed for later distribution.