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Homi Jehangir Bhabha

Homi Jehangir Bhabha
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Born (1909-10-30)30 October 1909
Bombay, British India (present-day India)
Died 24 January 1966(1966-01-24) (aged 56)
Mont Blanc, France
Residence New Delhi, India
Citizenship India
Nationality Indian
Fields Nuclear Physics
Institutions Atomic Energy Commission of India
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Cavendish Laboratory
Indian Institute of Science
Trombay Atomic Energy Establishment
Alma mater Cathedral & John Connon School
University of Mumbai
University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor Ralph H. Fowler
Other academic advisors Paul Dirac
Known for Indian nuclear programme
Cascade process of Cosmic radiations
point particles
Bhabha Scattering
Theoretical prediction of Muon
Notable awards Adams Prize (1942)
Padma Bhushan (1954)
Fellow of the Royal Society

Homi Jehangir Bhabha (/ˈbɑːbɑː/;) (30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Colloquially known as "father of the Indian nuclear programme", Bhabha was the founding director of two well-known research institutions, namely the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and the Trombay Atomic Energy Establishment (now named after him); both sites were the cornerstone of Indian development of nuclear weapons which Bhabha also supervised as its director.

Homi Jehangir Bhabha was born into a wealthy and prominent industrial Parsi family, through which he was related to Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, and Dorabji Tata. He was born on 30 October 1909, in an illustrious family with a long tradition of learning and service to the country. His father was Jehangir Hormusji Bhabha, a well known lawyer and his mother was Meheren. He received his early education at Bombay's Cathedral and John Connon 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 a degree in Mechanical engineering from Cambridge and then return to India, where he would join the Tata Steel Mills in Jamshedpur as a metallurgist.


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