1. SCIENCE
TOPIC-SCIENTIST

2. HOMI JEHANGIR BHABHA

3. HOMI JEHANGIR BHABHA CHINTAMANI DESHMUKH
BIOGRAPHY
HOMI JEHANGIR BHABHA CHINTAMANI DESHMUKH
The present biography of Bhabha presents the legendary scientist not only from the perspective of his contribution to Indian Science and Technology but also deals with his other areas of interests and concerns. The reader through these pages gets to know an institution builder, an administrator, a diplomat a dreamer, a painter, a music lover, a sensitive man that Bhabha was, besides also getting an insight into the joy and pain of the aspirations and limitations of a newly independent nation.
Chintamani Deshmukh did his M.Sc. from Bombay University and taught Physics at the V.J.T. Institute Mumbai for thirty years. He has been a science communicator and was associated with Lok Vidnyan Sanghatana and Vidnyan Granthali in Maharashtra for a number of years. His books include biographies of Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi and Homi Bhabha in Marathi published by Granthali. He lived in Mumbai. He passed in 2006.

4. INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION Homi Bhabha is widely regarded as one of the chief architects of post-independence science and technology (S & T) development in India. He stands head and shoulders above other eminent, and even senior, Indian scientists of the time. He was solely responsible for establishing and expanding the large atomic energy programme in our newly independent and largely underdeveloped country.

5. PROTECTED AND SECURE CHILDHOOD
In the rich and cultured family, Homi had a materially secure and emotionally wellprotected childhood. As an infant, he used to have very little sleep. The worried parents consulted the family doctor, but his medicine failed to make the child sleep longer. Finally, a well-known European child specialist was consulted, and extensive and thorough tests were conducted. To the parents’ relief, the doctor pronounced that the child was quite healthy and normal, but he slept less because his brain was super active. It was also discovered that the baby had a musical ear. Music would instantly pacify the crying child, and he would start listening to it intently. The result was that the parents and family members did everything they could to nurture his latent talents.

6. CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION
CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION Homi Bhabha was born on 30 October 1909 in Mumbai (then Bombay) of Jehangir Hormusji Bhabha and Meherbai (nee Meherbai Framji Panday). It was a rich heritage from a highly cultured and accomplished Parsee family. The Parsees constitute a tiny Zoroastrian community in Western India, mainly concentrated in southern Gujarat coast, and in and around Mumbai. The peace-loving migrants from Persia had thoroughly assimilated themselves in the social fabric of Gujarat, and with the advent of the British Raj they took to commerce and industry establishing themselves in Mumbai. The Mumbai Parsees formed a highly Westernised entrepreneurial community.

7. COLLEGE LIFE
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Homi Bhabha joined the Gonville and Caius College in He was not a stranger here. Sir Dorab was an alumnus earlier, and had given a donation to it. Bhabha’s joining Cambridge was just a part of the Oxbridge tradition of the extended family for two generations. His mathematical abilities and creative play with the meccano had raised hopes in the minds of his father, and Sir Dorab that this boy was fit for heading the Jamshedpur steel works of the Tatas, and accordingly Homi had joined for the Mechanical Sciences Tripos in deference to their wishes. But the times were not normal at Cambridge when Bhabha had arrived. A scientific revolution in physics was in full steam in Europe, and the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge was at the centre of this raging storm.

8. RESERCHES
Plunging into Research 1932 was the miracle year for the Cavendish Laboratory. James Chadwick had demonstrated with very delicate and intricate experiments the existence of the neutron, which was predicted theoretically earlier, but because of its lack of electric charge this particle within the nucleus with mass equal to the mass of the positive proton, was dodging the experimentalists for long. Cockcroft and Walton had produced transmutation of light elements by bombarding them with high-speed protons from an accelerator, thus taking the first step in realising the age-old alchemical dream of converting one element into another. Though it was not gold, ultimately their success would result into things worthier than gold. During the same year, P. M. S. Blackett and Occhialini obtained clear and beautiful photographs in a magnetic cloud chamber of electron-positron pairs and their showers produced by gamma-radiation.

9. ADHIRAJ
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