Homi Jahangir Bhabha Jayanti

• Homi Jahangir Bhabha is also called the father of the Indian nuclear program.

• He was born on 30 October 1909 in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, (now Mumbai, Maharashtra).

• He was awarded the Adams Prize in 1942. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1954.

• He was the founding director of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).

• He was also the founder director of Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay. It is now called Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.

• He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 and 1953–1956.

• He received a doctorate in nuclear physics after publishing his first scientific paper—"The Absorption of Cosmic Radiation"—in January 1933.