HOMI JEHANGIR BHABHA

[Click any drop-downbox below to see & select the possible answers]

Born on Oct-30, 1909 and died Jan 24, 1966, his full name was Homi Bhabha.

He was Indian Physicist, founding Director and Professor of Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

He is commonly known as the of the Indian nuclear programme.

He was also the founding Director of Atomoc Energy Commission, , which is now named after him.

After returning from England in 1939, he became Reader in Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bngalore, which was then headed by Laureate C.V. .

He was also the President of the United Nations Conference on of Nuclear Energy in Geneva, Switzerland in 1955.

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 Scattering.

In 1954 he was decorated with Padma Award by the Government of India.

He was also a member of the Indian Cabinet's Scientific Advisory Committee for research.

In January, 1966, he died in a while heading to Vienna, Austria, to attend the meeting of the IAEA's Scientific Advisory Committee.

He took a practical note of the fact that India was blessed with about 500,000 tonnes of reserve as against only about 50,000 tonnes of reserves. So he conceived a stage nuclear programme for India.

Stage 1 - Nuclear power Generators to be based on uranium.

Stage 2 - Plutonium gained from first generation nuclear power generators to be used for second generation nuclear power generators besides converting Thorium into or depleted Uranium into more Plutomium.

Stage 3 - power stations of third generation will produce more U-233 than they will burn for power production.

So, India has the most technically and innovative nuclear energy programme in the world.

Coincidentally, Homi J. Bhabha was also a and classical music and opera enthusiast.