Jayanti Special: Homi Jahangir Bhabha was an expert not only in atomic science but also in this art, that is why Chandrashekhar Venkataraman gave him a new title.

Obnews Desk: Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha is the father of India's nuclear program. If today India is counted among the nuclear rich countries, then Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha and his ideas have an important contribution in it. The same Dr. Bhabha had claimed that if he got a chance, he would make an atomic bomb within 18 months. Even America, which was trying to become the grandfather of the world, was surprised by his claim.

Just three months after this claim, Homi Jahangir Bhabha died in a plane crash on 24 January 1966. Not only India but the entire world was shocked by Bhabha's death. Today i.e. 30th October is the 114th birth anniversary. Come, on this occasion we know that Homi Jahangir Bhabha was not only an expert in making atomic bombs, but was also an expert in making something else.

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Born in Mumbai, studied in Cambridge

Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha was born on 30 October 1909 in Mumbai. His family was Parsi. Father Hormusji Bhabha was a famous lawyer of that time. His mother was Meherbai Tata, the daughter of well-known businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata. Born in an affluent family, Dr. Bhabha did his early education in Mumbai, after which he went to Britain in 1930 for higher education. There he took admission in Mechanical Engineering at Cambridge University. For this, Dr. Bhabha was encouraged by his father and uncle.

Leonardo da Vinci of India

Indian scientist Sir Chandrashekhar Venkataraman called Homi Jahangir Bhabha the Leonardo da Vinci of India. Bhabha, who often wore double-breasted suits, was equally interested in scientific subjects as well as music, dance, books and painting. You might have seen scientists giving speeches, but you might not have seen them making pictures or sketches of their colleagues.

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Indira Chaudhary, who has written a book on Bhabha, says, “Mrinalini Sarabhai had told me that Bhabha had made two sketches of her. Bhabha had also made a sketch of Hussain. Renowned scientist Professor Yashpal worked with Homi Bhabha early in his career at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He says that what Bhabha achieved at the young age of 57 has no other example.