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Homi Jehangir Bhabha was an Indian nuclear theoretical physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding director and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), as well as the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which was renamed the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour. TIFR…
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science · Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966) · nuclear physicist · physicist · also Homi Jehangir Bhabha, Homi J. Bhabha, Homi Bhabha, Bhabha
Born 30 October 1909 · Died 24 January 1966 · Q325611
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the development of atomic energy should be entrusted to a very small and high-powered body composed of say three people with executive power, and answerable directly to the Prime Minister without any intervening link. For brevity, this body may be referred to as the Atomic Energy Commission.
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The Tribune: Homi Jehangir Bhabha: Father of Indian Nuclear Science
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To raise funds for upkeep and development of the centre
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Published “Activation of cytoplasmic dynein motility by dynactin-cargo adapter complexes” in Science — cited 613 times.
Published “The Location of Culture” — cited 1,117 times.
Published “Cross-neutralization of influenza A viruses mediated by a single antibody loop” in Nature — cited 482 times.
Published “A Dynamic Knockout Reveals That Conformational Fluctuations Influence the Chemical Step of Enzyme Catalysis” in Science — cited 443 times.
Published “A Highly Conserved Neutralizing Epitope on Group 2 Influenza A Viruses” in Science — cited 800 times.
Published “Antibody Recognition of a Highly Conserved Influenza Virus Epitope” in Science — cited 1,234 times.
Raja Ramanna said:The Pokhran test was a bomb, I can tell you now
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Homi Sethna, a former AEC chairman, agreed that Bhabha had prompted this statement, though he added that "Bhabha was able to obtain approval to do theoretical studies only"
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Raja Ramanna, the physicist tasked in 1965 with directing the nuclear weapons project, said: "I don't think it would have been possible to do what Bhabha said—build a device in 18 months
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Published a book titled Conversations with the Crow in 2013
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Published “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse” in October — cited 982 times.
Published “The Other Question…” in Screen — cited 528 times.
TIFR showcased an exhibition of Bhabha's life at the Royal Society, which was later moved to TIFR's auditorium foyer
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Died 1966-01-24.
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Thirteen days apart, to thwart India's nuclear programme
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General Electric was commissioned to build two light water-moderated nuclear reactors in Tarapur
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An art gallery designed the Chicago-based firm Holabird & Root architect Helmuth Bartsch was inaugurated at TIFR
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In a meeting with Nehru and Kenneth Nichols, who was visiting India as a consultant to Westinghouse, Bhabha estimated that it would take India "about a year" to build a nuclear bomb
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As India's three-stage nuclear power programme
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And appointed the President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics from 1960 to 1963
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Was elected an honorary fellow of Gonville and Caius College and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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"the work of the Atomic Energy Commission had been restricted to the survey of radioactive minerals, setting up plants for processing monazite and limited research activity in the area of electronics, methods of chemical
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Indian Rare Earths Limited, a Government-owned company, was established to extract rare earths and thorium from Kerala's monazite sands, with Bhabha serving as its director
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“the development of atomic energy should be entrusted to a very small and high-powered body composed of say three people with executive power, and answerable directly to the Prime Minister without any intervening link. For brevity, this body may be referred to as the Atomic Energy Commission.”
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In the Ministry of Natural Resources and Scientific Research, no important effort to develop this work was made until a separate department of the Government of India with the full powers of a ministry was established in
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To establish new ways of expressing India's post-colonial identity
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And is now known in physics literature as the Bhabha–Madhavarao theory
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Career landmark: director (1945).
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Awarded Adams Prize (1942).
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Career landmark: professor (1942).
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Making him the first Indian to receive the honour
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Wrote to Robert Millikan that he hoped that the war would be over soon, so that "we can all turn again in more favourable conditions to purely scientific activity"
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And the following year he became the first Indian to receive the Adams Prize
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The Sir Dorabji Tata Trust supported his experimental cosmic ray physics research with a grant
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Bhabha was awarded a Royal Society grant to work in P
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With Walter Heitler, he co-authored a paper, "The passage of fast electrons and the theory of cosmic showers" in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A, in which they used their theory to describe how primary cos
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While continuing to be based in Gonville and Caius College
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For his thesis titled "On cosmic radiation and the creation and annihilation of positrons and electrons"
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Bhabha published a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society in which he first calculated the cross-section of electron-positron scattering
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Bhabha was selected for the Isaac Newton scholarship, which he held for the next three years and used to fund his time working with Enrico Fermi at the Institute of Physics in Rome
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On a Rouse Ball travelling studentship, he visited Copenhagen, Zurich and Utrecht
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And the formulation of Dirac's hole theory to explain its properties had catalysed the creation of the field of high-energy physics
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Bhabha held the Salomons studentship in engineering
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Studied at University of Cambridge (1930).
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Where he witnessed a public lecture by Arthur Compton, who would win the Nobel Prize in physics the next year for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect
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Born 1909-10-30.
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