Homi J. Bhabha
1909 CE–1966 CE · Mumbai (Global Vipassana Pagoda)
Homi Jehangir Bhabha (30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear theoretical physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding director and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), as well as the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which was renamed the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour. TIFR and AEET served as the cornerstone to the Indian nuclear energy and weapons programme. He was the first chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). By supporting space science projects which initially derived their funding from the AEC, he played an important role in the birth of the Indian space programme. Bhabha was awarded the Adams Prize (1942) and Padma Bhushan (1954), and nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951 and 1953–1956. He died in the crash of Air India Flight 101 in 1966, at the age of 56.
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Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra on India's west coast, is the site of the Global Vipassana Pagoda near Gorai, a large dome built under the vision of S. N. Goenka. Its foundation was laid in 2000 and it opened in 2009 as a monument and meditation hall in the tradition of his teacher U Ba Khin.
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