Remembering India's first, “unrecognized” neuroscientist: Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose

FigureAn important new feature of Neurology India initiated by its current Editor, Prof. Sanjay Behari, is the series of biographies of the founders of Indian Neurosciences. In common perception, even among current neuroscientists, both basic and clinical, the foundation of modern neurosciences in the country was laid down by the three doyens – Professors Jacob Chandy, B. Ramamurthi, and Baldev Singh, sometime in early 1950s.[1,2,3] A chance encounter recently with an unrelated publication revealed that we had overlooked the real pioneer of neurosciences, in its broadest sense, nearly half a century earlier than the three doyens. Talking to a host of distinguished neuroscientists, it became obvious that practically no one could guess the identity of this one of the most…