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Oct 30 - today is the 110th birth anniversary of the great Indian Physicist Homi J. Bhabha - 'The Father of India's Nuclear Program'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._B…

Bhabha was also the founding director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (@TIFRScience) and AET (later BARC).

@TIFRScience "Bhabha was awarded the Adams Prize (1942) and Padma Bhushan (1954). He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951 and 1953–1956."

@TIFRScience 'Homi Bhabha: The Scientist And The Statesman'

swarajyamag.com/from-the-archi… via @swarajyamag

@TIFRScience @SwarajyaMag A famous photo of Homi Bhabha, along with
Einstein, Yukawa (first Japanese Nobel Laureate), Wheeler (coined the word 'black hole') - at Princeton.

@TIFRScience @SwarajyaMag How India's First Indigenous Computers Were Built - Fascinating story of the 'race' between Mahalanobis and Bhabha:

The first analog computer in 1953 in ISI Kolkata.

The first digital computer in 1959 in TIFR Mumbai.

thebetterindia.com/?p=119136

@TIFRScience @SwarajyaMag Why We Need To Thank Homi Bhabha for India's Role In The Discovery of Gravitational Waves

huffingtonpost.in/karan-pankaj-j… - @AstroKPJ

@TIFRScience @SwarajyaMag @AstroKPJ Homi Bhabha and how World War II was responsible for creating India’s nuclear future

Taking a break from work in England, Homi Bhabha returned to India in 1939 and decided to stay, going on to become the father of India's nuclear programme.

theprint.in/theprint-profi…

@TIFRScience @SwarajyaMag @AstroKPJ "I learnt from Professor M.G.K. Menon, who became the director when Bhabha died, that he had felt emotionally unprepared to occupy the space where he had worked with Bhabha. Menon’s successors too had a similar response."

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