The second reference, I should clarify, was not a Hive post.
Here's another:
The Story of How Jagdish Chandra Bose Proved Plants Have Life
J C Bose: The Little Known Story of How India's First Biophysicist Proved Plants Have Life. A man whose genius transcended boundaries, Jagdish Chandra Bose was a quintessential polymath: a physicist, a biologist, a botanist, an archaeologist, an author and a connoisseur of fine arts.