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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- Selman Waksman· 1888 CE–1973 CE
- Richard Courant· 1888 CE–1972 CE
- James Chadwick· 1891 CE–1974 CE
- Louis de Broglie· 1892 CE–1987 CE
- Harold Urey· 1893 CE–1981 CE
- Pyotr Kapitsa· 1894 CE–1984 CE
- Satyendra Nath Bose· 1894 CE–1974 CE
- Georges Lemaître· 1894 CE–1966 CE
- John Cockcroft· 1897 CE–1967 CE
- Howard Florey· 1898 CE–1968 CE
- Leo Szilard· 1898 CE–1964 CE
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin· 1900 CE–1979 CE
- Werner Heisenberg· 1901 CE–1976 CE
- Paul Dirac· 1902 CE–1984 CE
- John von Neumann· 1903 CE–1957 CE
- George Gamow· 1904 CE–1968 CE
- J. Robert Oppenheimer· 1904 CE–1967 CE
- Kurt Gödel· 1906 CE–1978 CE
- Ernst Chain· 1906 CE–1979 CE
- Hideki Yukawa· 1907 CE–1981 CE
- Lev Landau· 1908 CE–1968 CE
- Alan Turing· 1912 CE–1954 CE
- Wernher von Braun· 1912 CE–1977 CE
- Rosalind Franklin· 1920 CE–1958 CE
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- Zhou Enlai· 1898 CE–1976 CE
- Puyi (Xuantong Emperor)· 1906 CE–1967 CE
- Jomo Kenyatta· 1894 CE–1978 CE
- Sukarno· 1901 CE–1970 CE
- John F. Kennedy· 1917 CE–1963 CE
- Mao Zedong· 1893 CE–1976 CE
- Lyndon B. Johnson· 1908 CE–1973 CE
- Kwame Nkrumah· 1909 CE–1972 CE
- Haile Selassie I· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Francisco Franco· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Edward VIII· 1894 CE–1972 CE
- Nikita Khrushchev· 1894 CE–1971 CE
- Chiang Kai-shek· 1887 CE–1975 CE
- Leonid Brezhnev· 1906 CE–1982 CE
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