Bose Institute

Bose Institute

Unified campus of Bose Institute
Established	November 30, 1917 (1917-11-30)
Research type	Interdisciplinary research
Field of research	Plant Science Structural Biology Biochemistry Biophysics Synthetic Organic Chemistry Medicinal Chemistry Spectroscopy Bioinformatics Computational Biology Theoretical Chemistry Nuclear Astrophysics High Energy Physics Condensed Matter Physics Complex Systems Quantum Computation Environmental Science
Director	Kaustuv Sanyal
Chairperson	Devang Vipin Khakhar
Location	Kolkata, West Bengal, India 22°34′47″N 88°14′30″E
Campus	EN Block, Sector V, Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal 700091
Founder	Jagadish Chandra Bose
Operating agency	Department of Science and Technology
Website	www.jcbose.ac.in

Bose Institute (or Basu Bigyan Mandir) is a premier public research institute of India for biological sciences, physical sciences and chemical sciences and also one of its oldest. The institute was established on 30 November 1917 by Acharya Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, the pioneer of modern scientific research in the Indian subcontinent. Bose was its director for the first twenty years till his demise. Debendra Mohan Bose, who succeeded the Nobel laureate Sir CV Raman as Palit Professor of Physics at the University of Calcutta, was the director of Bose Institute for the next thirty years.