| Name(s) |
HOMI Jehangir
BHABHA |
| Date of
Birth |
October 30, 1909 |
| Date of
Death |
January 24, 1966
(died in a plane crash while heading to Vienna,
Austria, to attend the meeting of the IAEA's Scientific Advisory
Committee) |
|
Identity |
Indian Nuclear
Physicist - regarded as the father of the Indian nuclear
programme. |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1939: After returning from
England, he became Reader in Physics at the Indian Institute
of Science, Bngalore, which was then headed by Nobel
Laureate C.V. Raman.
- March 20, 1941: He was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
- 1945: He established the
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay.
- 1948: He established the
Atomic Energy Commission in 1948, serving as its first
chairman.
- 1954: He was decorated with
PADMA BHUSHAN Award by the Government of
India.
- 1955: He was the President
of the United Nations Conference on Peaceful Uses of Nuclear
Energy in Geneva, Switzerland.
|
|
Other Events &
Developments |
- He was founding Director and Professor of Physics at
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
- He was also the founding Director of Atomoc Energy
Commission, Trombay, which is now named after him.
- Sino-Indian war of 1962 was a stimulant for
India's nuclear weapons programme initiated by him.
- He earned world-wide fame for deriving correct
expression for probability of scattering positrons by the
electrons, a process now known as Bhabha Scattering.
- He was also a member of the Indian Cabinet's
Scientific Advisory Committee for space research.
- He took a practical note of the fact that India was
blessed with about 500,000 tonnes of Thorium reserve as
against only about 50,000 tonnes of Uranium reserves. So he
conceived a three stage nuclear programme for India:
- Stage 1 - Nuclear power Generators to be based on
natural uranium.
- Stage 2 - Plutonium gained from first
generation nuclear power generators to be used for
second generation nuclear power generators besides
converting Thorium into Uranium-233 or depleted Uranium
into more Plutomium.
- Stage 3 - Breeder power stations of third generation
will produce more U-233 than they will burn for power
production.
- So, India has the most technically ambitious and
innovative nuclear energy programme in the world.
|
|
Other |
He was also a painter and classical music and opera
enthusiast.
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