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The Father of India's Nuclear Program, Homi Jehangir Bhabha, known as Homi J.Bhabha, was a great Physicist. He has contributed a lot in the Nuclear Plant Progress in India. At a time when Indian people were not aware about Nuclear energy, Bhabha started working on it. 

In the Article below, we have tried to gather maximum aspects of Bhabha’s Life as a person, as a scientist. 

Homi J. Bhabha  Biography

Homi Jehangir Bhabha FRS, Born on October 30th, 1909 - Died on January 24th, 1966, was an Indian Nuclear Physicist. He was the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India. This position was established by him only and succeeded by Vikram Sarabhai.

Homi J. Bhabha  Family

• Father -  Jehangir Hormusji Bhabha (A Well Known Lawyer)
• Mother - Meherbai Framji Panday (Homemaker and grand daughter of Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit (Great Philanthropist))
• Siblings -  Jamshed Bhabha (founder and lifelong chairman of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) at Nariman Point)
• Wife - Unmarried

Homi J. Bhabha Education

• School - Bombay Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai
• Educational Qualification - 
• Bachelor of Science in Caius College
• In 1933, PhD in Nuclear Physics Cambridge University
• College - 

Elphinstone College, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Royal Institute of Science, Great Britain

Caius College of Cambridge University, London, England. 

Homi J. Bhabha  Personal Information

The Personal details of Homi J. Bhabha are given below:

• Birth Name - Homi Jehangir Bhabha
• Birth Place - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Home -  Mehrangir, was the Home to Homi J. Bhabha
• Zodiac Sign - Scorpio
• Nicknames - Father of the Indian Nuclear Program
• Net Worth - Around INR 25-50 lakh
  (The bungalow owned by Homi Jehangir Bhabha sold at auction for INR 372 crore.)
• Profession - Indian Physicist  
• Assistants -  Dr. Vishwesh Mathur, and Raza Mehdi (Both Scientists)
• Doctoral advisor: Ralph H. Fowler

Homi J. Bhabha  Favorites

• Hobbies -  Painting, Classical Music and Opera, and Botany
• Favorite Subjects - Physics (He once wrote to his father about his Extreme Interest in Physics)
• Best Friends - Vikram Sarabhai

Homi J. Bhabha  Death - Date, Place, & Cause

• Death Date - January 24, 1966
• Place of Death - Mont Blanc, France
• Death Cause - Crash of Air India Flight 101 

Why is Homi J. Bhabha so Famous?

• When Homi J. Bhabha Completed his studies from London and came back to India, he observed that most of the Indian region is in darkness. 
• In 1947, when the Indian Nation became Independent, Bhabha wrote a letter to Jawaharlal Nehru, who was the Prime Minister of India then. 
• In this letter, he expressed his wish to bring Electricity in India with the help of a Nuclear Plant. 
• His request got accepted and by 1958, the Energy Atomic Plant was ready. 
• The world called it a Nuclear Weapon and tried their level best to stop this project. 
• Bhabha stood on the practicality of the argument in which he shared his view on the need for Indians to go ahead with this project. 
• He expressed this in the United Nation Conference and made people understand the requirements of India by using wise words. 
• He stated about:
• How India remained underdeveloped due to the English people who never introduced New Technology to Indians. 
• As his words worked, he got permission and later became the Father of Nuclear Energy in India.

Homi J. Bhabha  Contribution 

• Bhabha created electron-positron scattering, which eventually became known as "Bhabha Scattering" in his respect, and reported it in "Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A" in 1935.
• Bhabha established a nuclear research laboratory at Trombay in the year 1954, and it later went by the name Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). 
• Bhabha was a major supporter of nuclear power and was in charge of organizing the 1955 UN Conference on the Peaceful Application of Atomic Energy. He oversaw India's nuclear program till the day he died.

Homi J. Bhabha Movie

The movie was based on the inspirational life of the greatest Indian Scientist, Homi J. Bhabha, is:

Rocket Boys

• The story of the outstanding lives of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai and Dr. Homi J. Bhabha. The plot concentrates on the three pivotal decades in India's history—the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s—and how the country has grown into a powerful, bold, and independent country.

Homi J. Bhabha Wife Pipsy

• The Cinemaholic claims that while "Pipsy" is primarily made up, some of it is based on Phiroza "Pipsy" Wadia, a dear friend and traveling companion of Dr. Homi Bhabha.

Homi J. Bhabha  Early Life

• Homi J. Bhabha was born and brought up in 1909 into a wealthy, well-educated family in the western region of India. 
• After earning his bachelor's degree from the Royal Institute of Science, he relocated to Uk and enrolled in Cambridge University as a graduate student.

Homi J. Bhabha Religion

He was a Parsi by Religion.

Homi J. Bhabha Books

• Homi Bhabha as Artist: A Selection of His Paintings, Drawings, and Sketches
• The Low-frequency Radio Universe: An Event
• Special Report on Manual Training in Schools of General Education

Homi J. Bhabha Awards

The famous Awards won by Dr.Homi Jehangir Bhabha are:

• The Adams Prize - 1942
• Padma Bhushan - 1954
• Fellow of the Royal Society - 1941

Is there any book written on Homi J. Bhabha?

You can read more about Homi J. Bhabha in the book written on him:

• Homi J Bhabha: A Renaissance Man among Scientists 

Homi J. Bhabha Death Mystery

• On January 24, 1966, Air India Flight 101 crashed right next to Mont Blanc, killing Bhabha. 
• The official explanation of the tragedy, which claimed the life of India's most brilliant and determined nuclear physicist, is reported as a misunderstanding between Geneva's airport staff and the pilot on the aircraft's position near a mountain.
• His demise is still a mystery since it's thought that Bhabha was murdered and that his death was staged to look like an accident.

Homi J. Bhabha Fun Facts

• In Copenhagen, Homi worked as a student with Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr and was a key contributor to the advancement of Quantum Theory. 
• After submitting his first scientific article, "The Absorption of Cosmic Radiation," he was among the first Indians to be awarded the Isaac Newton Studentship in 1933.

Conclusion

• Bhabha played a significant role in the creation of the Department of Atomic Energy in India.  
• The first UN Conference on the Peaceful Application of Atomic Energy was organized in 1955 as a result of his motivation. 
• Homi Bhabha developed a plan to utilize India's huge thorium resources rather than its limited uranium reserves in order to generate electricity.

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