Homi J. Bhabha: A Life

Name : Homi J. Bhabha: A Life

Author : Bakhtiar K. Dadabhoy

Book Format : Hardcover

Genre : Biographies

ISBN : 9789355208187

Language : English

Pages : 701-800 Pages

Publish Year : 2023

Publisher : Rupa Publications India

Sub Genre : Diaries & Journals

Homi J. Bhabha : A Life is the first full-fledged biography of the theoretical physicist who founded India’s nuclear programme. A Renaissance man, Bhabha was also a lover of music and an accomplished painter. A scientist and aesthete who was equally at home in the world of science and the arts, he was both a visionary and a doer—a man of thought as well as a man of action. A great deal is known of his astonishing intellect, but less about his human side. This biography combines both aspects of him, presenting a more complete picture of the man.

Bhabha’s life story also provides a good vehicle for telling the story of Indian science and the

foundations of India’s atomic energy programme. This biography is as much an early history of the

Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and India’s atomic energy programme as it is an

account of Bhabha’s life and work.

Meticulously researched and narrated in rich, human, political and scientific detail, this biography

tells the story of one of twentieth-century India’s greatest scientists and the country’s greatest-ever

science administrator.

Country of Origin : India