Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, also known as Homi Bhabha, was an Indian nuclear physicist, engineer, and the father of India's nuclear power program. He was born on October 30, 1909, in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, and was the second of three children of Jehangir Hormusji Bhabha, a lawyer, and Meheren. Bhabha received his early education at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Bombay and later went on to study at the Elphinstone College, where he received a degree in mathematics and physics. He later received a scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge, where he received a tripos degree in mathematics in 1930 and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics in 1934. After completing his studies, Bhabha returned to India and joined the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore as a reader in the physics department. In 1940, he established the Cosmic Ray Research Unit at the Institute, which later became the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). During World War II, Bhabha played a key...
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