Homi J. bhabha
Today is the birthday of Homi Jahangir Bhabha, the father of the Indian nuclear program and famous nuclear physicist. J. Bhabha was also the founding director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and a professor of physics. He is also known as the father of the Indian nuclear programme. Homi Jahangir Bhabha was born on October 30, 1909 in a rich Parsi family.
He passed a difficult exam at the age of 16.
Homi Jahangir Bhabha’s father’s name was Jahangir Hormusji Bhabha and mother’s name was Meherbai Bhabha. His father was a well-known lawyer while his mother was a housewife. Homi Bhabha passed the Cambridge Senior Examination at the age of 16. He then went to Cambridge to gain a degree in mechanical engineering at Gonville and Caius College. After this, he began research at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and his first research paper was published in 1933. Two years later, he obtained his PhD and remained at Cambridge until 1939.
- He came to India briefly in 1939, but due to the outbreak of the Second World War he was unable to return to Cambridge to complete his research. Therefore, he started working as a reader at the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) in Bangalore.
- Bhabha was not only a lover of science but also of art. He loved painting, classical music and listening to opera, and was also an amateur botanist.
- Homi Bhabha worked with Nobel laureate Niels Bohr in Copenhagen as a student and played an important role in the development of quantum theory.
- He was the one who identified and named the meson particle. He collaborated with a German physicist to develop the cascade theory to understand cosmic radiation.
- He was the first president of the first United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, held in 1955.
- In 1954 he received the Padma Bhushan Award for his outstanding contributions to atomic energy, and in 1942 he also received the Adams Prize, as well as being made a Fellow of the Royal Society.
- Bhabha wanted atomic energy to be used to eliminate poverty in the country and advocated banning atomic weapons worldwide.
- He was so dedicated to his work that he remained single throughout his life and devoted all his time to science.
- He lived in a big bungalow called Mehrangir in Malabar Hills.
- He died in a mysterious plane crash near Mount Blanc on January 24, 1966. At the same time, some people claim that the CIA had him assassinated to stop India’s nuclear program.
Eight years after his death, India carried out its first nuclear test at Pokhran on May 18, 1974, which was codenamed Operation Laughing Buddha.
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