In the year 1937, Jagadish Chandra Bose, an Indian scientist, mathematician, and writer, died at the age of 78.
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a pioneering Indian scientist who demonstrated through experimentation that animals and plants have many similarities. He showed that plants are sensitive to heat, cold, light, noise, and a variety of other external stimuli. Unfortunately, he died on November 23, 1937, at the age of 78.
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