Birth anniversary of Homi Jehangir Bhabha: 30 October
- Homi Jehangir 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 Padma Bhushan in 1954.
- He was the founding director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).
- He was also the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay. It is now called the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
- He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951 and 1953-1956.
- He received his doctorate in nuclear physics in January 1933 after publishing his first scientific paper-“The Absorption of Cosmic Radiation”.
- He died on 24 January 1966 when Air India Flight 101 crashed near Mont Blanc.
