His first paper was published in which was followed by many more. He received his PhD in and continued to stay in Cambridge until During this period, he travelled to Europe and met scientists like Neil Bohr, Pauli and Fermi among others.
Bhabha was in India, when the war broke out in Europe and this marked the beginning of his career in India. He was elected as a member of the Royal Society in Bhabha, aware of the importance of translating theory into experiments, began putting his knowledge in the practical study of Cosmic Rays.
Bhabha was soon a force to reckon with in the international science circles as his studies in the field of Atomic Energy were considered of great importance. Homi Jehangir Bhabha was the visionary who conceptualised the Indian Nuclear Programme and along with a handful of Scientists initiated the nuclear science research in India in March, He envisaged the vast potential of nuclear energy and its possible successful utilization in the field of power generation and allied areas.
Bhabha started working with the goal of achieving self-reliance in the fields of nuclear science and engineering. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, realising the immense potential of nuclear energy as a viable alternative source for electric power generation, launched the Indian Nuclear Programme in March It was the farsightedness of Dr.
Bhabha to start nuclear research in India at a time following the discovery of nuclear fission phenomena by Otto Haln and Fritz Strassman and soon after Enrico Fermi and his team from Chicago reporting the feasibility of sustained nuclear chain reactions.
At that time very little information was available to the outside world about nuclear fission and sustained chain reactions and nobody was willing to subscribe to the concept of power generation based on nuclear energy.
The Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India, which is a consortium of different and diversified fields of science and engineering is the final outcome of the farsighted planning of Dr. Bhabha was an astute scientist and committed engineer, a dedicated architect, a meticulous planner and a perfect executive.
An ardent follower of fine arts and music, he was a philanthropist also. Notably, Bhabha was born to a rich aristocratic family on October 30 in the year , in Mumbai. As we commemorate his birthday today, here are some interesting facts about him:. In , he came to India only for a brief holiday but was unable to go back to complete his research at Cambridge as World War II had started. Not just Science, Bhabha was a lover of arts too. There are so many reasons to remember him. Experiencing a version of his life in this series has helped me discover the vivid, multifaceted, renaissance man that he was.
Charming, exacting, inscrutable, and above all, free. SonyLIV celebrates the visionary nuclear physicist - Dr Homi Bhabha and pays tribute to his pioneering work of putting India on the world map of nuclear science, by sharing a special scene from its upcoming original — Rocket Boys.
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