Jagadish Chandra Bose nominated to become face of UK's new 50-pound note

London: Indian physicist and physiologist Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was on Monday revealed among hundreds of scientists nominated in the first stage of the Bank of England's search for the face to feature on a new 50-pound note to go into print from 2020. He is nominated alongside one of the world's best-known physicists, Stephen Hawking, as the Bank of England announced that it had received a total of 174,112 nominations since it confirmed that the new note would feature a scientist who had made a significant contribution to British science.This is only the preliminary stage of identifying eligible names for consideration. Among some of the other 600 men and 200 women in the early nominations list include computing pioneers Alan Turing and Ada Lovelace, telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell and astronomer Patrick Moore. Penicillin discoverer Alexander Fleming, father of modern epidemiology John Snow, naturalist and zookeeper Gerald Durrell, and fossil pioneer Mary Anning, and British-Jamaican nursing pioneer Mary Seacole are among the others.