Write (in about 200 words ) about homi j babha who was the father of indian nuclear programme
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Homi Jehangir Bhabha (30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).Colloquially known as "father of the Indian nuclear programme", Bhabha was also the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which is now named the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honor. TIFR and AEET were the cornerstone of Indian development of nuclear weapons which Bhabha also supervised as director.
In January 1933, Bhabha received his doctorate in nuclear physics after publishing his first scientific paper, "The Absorption of Cosmic radiation". In the publication, Bhabha offered an explanation of the absorption features and electron shower production in cosmic rays. The paper helped him win the Isaac Newton Studentship in 1934, which he held for the next three years. The following year, he completed his doctoral studies in theoretical physics under Ralph H. Fowler. During his studentship, he split his time working at Cambridge and with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. In 1935, Bhabha published a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A, in which he performed the first calculation to determine the cross section of electron-positron scattering. Electron-positron scattering was later named Bhabha scattering, in honor of his contributions in the field.
HOMI JEHANGIR BHABHA
"I know quite clearly I want out of my life. Life and my emotions are the only things I am conscious of. I love the consciousness of life and I want as much of it as I can get." -Homi J. Bhabha
India has nourished many world renowned scientists whose contribution in the modern technology is beyond imagination. One of them is the nuclear physicist Dr. Homi J. Bhabha. Also famously honoured as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme", he was the founding director of TIFR and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
Although his family members were against his career as a physicist, he pursued his dreams and became what he wanted to become. He was accredited with a PhD in nuclear physics in 1933.
He was a reader at the Indian Institution of Science or IISC during the WWII. It was through his convincing that Jawaharlal Nehru founded the nuclear programme in India. Homi. J. Bhabha was extraordinary in whatever he took part in, so in order to honour him for his immense contributions, he was awarded the Padma Bhusan in 1954.