Thread by @ParveenKaswan

Tribute to Homi Jahangir Bhabha, the father of Indian Nuclear Programme, on his birth anniversary. He came from cambridge during WWII but later stayed in India to serve. In picture Bhabha with Albert Einstein (relativity), Yukawa, John Wheeler(black hole).

He joined IISc Bangalore after coming to India. Time when Vikram Sarabhai was also there, who became father of Space programme. Raman was director of institute. Later Bhabha established BARC and TIFR. Giants walking the same corridor.

Bhabha conceived India’s three stage nuclear programme, ambitious one.

- Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor
- Fast Breeder Reactor
- Thorium Based Reactors

In 1966 he died in a place crash at Mont Blanc. From L-R: Neils Bohr, Homi Bhabha, JRD Tata and Jamshed Bhabha.

Three stage nuclear program in simple words.

India has less stock of uranium, we are importing. But we have huge thorium deposits.

So a strategy which started with uranium but in the end we will be able to use our own thorium deposits for power generation. Self sufficiency.

Bhabha was elected as Fellow of Royal Society, London. This certificate from 1941 when he was Reader in Physics at @iiscbangalore. Proposed by none other than CV Raman. Also supported by stalwarts like Dirac & Birbal Sahni. He worked with Bohr, Pauli also. All great physicists.

So the proposers were;

Birbal Sahni
PAM Dirac
Eddington
WL Bragg
Lennard -Jones
Jeffreys
Hartree
ML Oliphant
Max Born

All the stalwarts of Physics. One can check their Wikipedia pages to know about their contributions.
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