The Legacy of Homi Jehangir Bhabha

 

Speaker: Prof. Spenta R. Wadia, Founding Director of International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR

 

 

 

The talk highlights some aspects of Homi Bhabha as a scientist and institution builder, some of his views on science, scientific excellence and the administration of scientific institutions

 

 

 

Followed by screening of a film

 

Homi Bhabha (50 min; dvd; English)

 

On the occasion of Homi Bhabha’s birth centenary in 2009, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) commissioned a film on his life and achievements. The film traces his early years in Bombay, his student days in Cambridge, his scientific work, his return to India leading up to the establishment of TIFR and the atomic energy establishment (now named after him). The narrative is mainly told by people who knew Bhabha well including M.G.K. Menon, B.V. Sreekantan, Govind Swarup, Obaid Siddiqui and others