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Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the father of Indian nuclear research programme
Bhabha was born into a wealthy and prominent Parsi family,
through which he was related to Dinshaw Maneckji Petit,
Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Dorab Tata. He received his early
education at Bombay's Cathedral Grammar School and entered
Elphinstone College at age 15 after passing his Senior Cambridge
Examination with Honors. He then attended the Royal Institute of
Science until 1927 before joining Caius College of Cambridge
University. This was due to the insistence of his father and his
uncle Dorab Tata, who planned for Bhabha to obtain an engineering
degree from Cambridge and then return to India, where he would join
the Tata Iron and Steel Company in Jamshedpur.
Return to India : In September 1939, Bhabha was in
India for a brief holiday when World War II broke
out, and he decided not to return to England for the time being. He
accepted an offer to serve as the Reader in the Physics Department
of the Indian Institute of Science, then headed by renowned
physicist C. V. Raman. He received a special research grant from
the Sir Dorab Tata Trust, which he used to
establish the Cosmic Ray Research Unit at the
institute. Bhabha selected a few students, including
Harish-Chandra, to work with him. Later, on 20 March 1941, he was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . With the help of J.
R. D. Tata, he played an instrumental role in the
establishment of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in
Bombay.
Death and legacy : He died when Air India Flight
101 crashed near Mont Blanc on January 24, 1966.
Many possible theories have been advanced for the aircrash,
including a conspiracy theory in which CIA is involved in
order to paralyze Indian nuclear weapon programme. After
his death, the Atomic Energy Establishment at Trombay was renamed
as the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour.
In addition to being an able scientist and administrator,
Bhabha was also a painter and a classical music
and opera enthusiast, besides being an amateur botanist. He is one
of the most prominent scientists that India has ever had. Bhabha
also encouraged research in electronics, space science, radio
astronomy and microbiology. The famed radio telescope at Ooty,
India was his initiative, and it became a reality in 1970. The Homi
Bhabha Fellowship Council has been giving the Homi Bhabha
Fellowships since 1967 Other noted institutions in his name are the
Homi Bhabha National Institute, an Indian deemed university and the
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai,
India.
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