Misleading Claim About Jagadish Chandra Bose Being Featured on £50 Note Viral

Bose was nominated to be on the British currency notes in 2019 but he did not get selected for it.

A claim is going viral on social media stating that Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose's image is going to be featured on £50 banknote in the United Kingdom.

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What's the truth?: This claim is misleading. Bose's name was only nominated to be on the British notes, however, his name wasn't selected in the final round.

• Finally in 2021, renowned scientist Alan Turning was featured on the £50 notes.

How did we find out the truth?: We performed a relevant keyword search using 'Jagadish Chandra Bose £50 Bank of England' on Google and this led us to the official website of the Bank of England.

• The bank had shared a list of 174,112 nominations of the names received through public's entries.

• The document also mentioned that this is only the "preliminary stage of identifying eligible names for consideration" to feature a person on £50 note.

• It also adds, "These names have not yet been considered by our Banknote Character Advisory Committee."

• Next, we performed a keyword search on Google using 'new note £50 bank of England'.

• This led us to an official announcement shared by the Bank of England about the new design of the £50 banknote featuring scientist Alan Turing.

• This was shared on 15 July 2019 and it stated that the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester revealed the imagery depicting Turing in the new polymer £50 note.

• It also mentioned that this is expected to enter circulation by the end of 2021.

• Following this, another announcement was shared on 25 March 2021 declaring the official circulation of £50 notes featuring Turing.

• We also checked the website to see all the other banknotes in circulation and it did not carry Bose's name.

To cross-check, we also checked and found Turing's name in the list of nominations where Bose's name was mentioned.

Conclusion: A false claim about Jagadish Chandra Bose's image being featured on £50 note in the UK is going viral on the internet.

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