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#DESM: #National Science Day Homi Bhabha's Legacy as a Student, Scientist, Institution Builder and Promoter of Self-Reliance in India Expert:- Arun Grover Society for Promotion of Science and Technology in India and Panjab University, Chandigarh About the Talk: Homi J. Bhabha was inspired to pursue physics as a career as he listened to a talk delivered by would be Nobel Laureate AH Compton in Bombay in 1926. After qualifying through degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Physics at University of Cambridge, he enrolled for doctoral work under RH Fowler, under whom Paul Dirac, S Chandrasekhar and DS Kothari had also obtained their PhD Bhabha met W Pauli, Enrico Fermi and Neils Bohr in Europe while doing doctoral research. He carved a niche for himself amongst the leading theoretical physicists in Europe by 1940. He was on a holiday in India, when the Second World War (WW-II) broke out in Europe. CV Raman invited him to embed himself in Physics Department of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. Bhabha was elected as Fellow of The Royal Society (FRS) London in 1941, and he received Adams Prize in 1942. Bhabha’s interactions with fellow teacher-scientists in India in the war years stroked his thoughts to train young students who would attend to aspirations of the nation through application of science and technology. He got initiated Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) two months before the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan to end the WW-II. Ten days after the independence of India, Prime Minister Nehru authorized the creation of Board of Research in Atomic Energy within Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India to be chaired by Homi Bhabha. The Atomic Energy Commission with Bhabha as its first Chair followed in 1948, and Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India as a distinct entity happened in 1954. Bhabha chaired the United Nations sponsored first International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic energy in Geneva in 1955. India’s first Research Reactor, Apsara got critical in 1956, and the Atomic Energy Training School at Trombay was commenced in 1958. Bhabha had brought Tata Memorial Centre for Cancer Research under the DAE umbrella in 1957. In 1958, he also got enunciated the directives of Science Policy Resolution of Government of India. ‘Space Research and Peaceful uses of Outer Space’ as a new domain of DAE was initiated by Bhabha in August 1961. He had also Chaired the ‘Committee on Electronics’ soon after the border- conflict with China in October 1962. China tested its first Nuclear Bomb in November 1964, six months after the demise of Pt. Nehru. Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri faced the 1965 war with Pakistan, and he passed away suddenly on Jan. 11, 1966. Bhabha is reported to have accepted to join the cabinet of Smt. Indira Gandhi to oversee all the government departments engaged in scientific and technological pursuits. However, he perished in a plane crash on the morning of January 24, 1966, a few hours before Smt. Gandhi took the oath as the Prime Minister. She stated that India would long cherish his memory, for he was deeply involved in her destiny. About the Speaker: Dr. Arun Kumar Grover, a condensed matter physicist from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, served as the 12 th Vice Chancellor of the Panjab University, Chandigarh (2012-18). He received Homi Bhabha Science and Technology Award from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1995 for his contributions in Magnetism and Superconductivity. Prof. Grover is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences India (NASI), Prayagraj and Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bangalore. He also served as the Vice President of IASc. from 2016-18. He nucleated Chandigarh Region Innovation and Knowledge Cluster (CRIKC) in 2012, which brought together all the institutions in and around Chandigarh on a common platform to improve the quality of research and facilitate academia-industry cooperation. He is a member of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)’s International Commission (C-14) on Physics Education (ICPE), and its ‘Standing Committee on Physics outside Academia’. He also serves as Vice President of Society for Promotion of Science and Technology in India (SPSTI), Chandigarh. He is embedded in Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh (Deemed to be University) as Honorary Professor in its Department of Physics, and a member of its Board of Governors.