| Authorised form of name | Bhabha; Homi Jehangir (1909 - 1966) |
| Dates | 1909 - 1966 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Date of birth | 30/10/1909 |
| Date of death | 24/01/1966 |
| Activity | Education:
BA, PhD (Cantab)
Career:
Reader (1940) and Professor (1942) at the Bangalore Institute of Science
Director of the Tata Institute 1945-1966
Chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission 1948
President of the First United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy 1955
Member of the International Atomic Energy Agency Scientific Advisory Committee 1955-1966
President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics 1960-1963
Adams Prize 1942
Hopkins Prize of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1948
Melchett Award of the Fuel Institute London
Padma Bhushan award for services to India 1954
Honorary Fellow Gonville and Caius College Cambridge 1957
Honorary Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh 1957
Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1959
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States 1963
Honorary doctoral degrees in science at Patna 1944, Lucknow 1949, Banaras 1950, Agra 1952, Perth 1954, Allahabad 1958, Cambridge 1959, London 1960, Padova 1961. |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1941 |
| Age at election | 31 |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1967 vol 13 pp 35-55, plate, by Penney
References:
Sir Arnold Wolfendale, 'A Magnificent Obsession', review of G Venkataraman, Bhabha and his Magnificent Obsession in NR 1996 vol 50 pp 265-266, plate
Robert S Anderson, 'Patrick Blackett in India: Military Consultant and Scientific Intervenor, 1947-72. Part One' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 253-273
Robert S Anderson, 'Patrick Blackett in India: Military Consultant and Scientific Intervenor, 1947-72. Part Two' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 345-360
R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64 |
| Code | NA7118 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1941/02 | Bhabha, Homi Jehangir: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PB/8/59 | Tribute by Blackett to Homi Bhabha, broadcast on BBC European Service, 26 January 1966. | 1966 |
| PB/7/1/2/3 | Correspondence with family and colleagues following Homi Bhabha's death | 1966 |
| PB/3/1/1/1/4 | Correspondence with Homi Jehangir Bhabha and Hung Yuan Tzu on Pomeranchuk's theory | August 1946 |
| PB/7/1/1/10/7 | Speech by Blackett at Tala Institute, to introduce First Homi Bhabha Memorial Lecture (given by CF Powell). | November 1948 |
| PB/7/2/4/3 | Visit to Australia, New Zealand and Singapore | 1952-1953 |
| PB/7/1/2/2 | Correspondence with Homi Bhabha | 1941, 1951-1955, 1963 |
| IM/000361 | Bhabha, Homi Jehangir | nd |
| IM/Meitner Graf/005306 | Bhabha, Homi Jehangir | nd |
| RR/67/24 | Referee's report by William Wilson, on two papers 'General classical theory of spinning particles in a Maxwell field' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha and H C Corben and 'Classical theory of spinning particles in a meson field' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha | January 1941 |
| RR/68/433 | Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on two papers 'On the theory of point-particles' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha and Harish-Chandra, and 'On the removal of the infinite self-energies of point-particles' by Harish-Chandra | [1944] |
| RR/68/434 | Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on two papers 'On the fields and equations of motion of point particles' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha and Harish-Chandra, and 'On the equations of motion of point particles' by Harish-Chandra | [1944] |
| RR/68/216 | Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'The cascade theory with collision loss' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha and S K Chakrabarty | nd [1942] |
| RR/71/245 | Referee's report by Homi Jehangir Bhabha, on a paper 'The mass-centre in the restricted theory of relativity and its connexion with the quantum theory of elementary particles' by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce | 1948 |
| RR/72/33 | Letter from Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On the stochastic theory of continuous parametric systems and its application to electron cascades' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 17 April 1950 |
| RR/72/27 | Referee's report by Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'On the stochastic theory of continuous parametric systems and its application to electron cascades' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha | 1949 |
| RR/72/30 | Letter from Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'On the stochastic theory of continuous parametric systems and its application to electron cascades' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 14 October 1949 |
| PB/9/1/96/3 | Correspondence on the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, 1962 | 1962 |
| PB/9/1/101/3 | Royal Society correspondence | 1960-1961 |
| RR/67/26 | Letter from Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, on a paper 'General classical theory of spinning particles in a Maxwell field' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha and H C Corben to Winchcraft | 9 February 1941 |
| RR/72/32 | Letter from Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On the stochastic theory of continuous parametric systems and its application to electron cascades' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 3 November 1949 |
| RR/68/217 | Letter from Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, to Alfrd Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'The cascade theory with collision loss' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha and S K Chakrabarty | 17 April 1942 |
| RR/67/25 | Referee's report by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, on two papers 'General classical theory of spinning particles in a Maxwell field' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha and H C Corben and 'Classical theory of spinning particles in a meson field' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha | 27 December 1940 |
| RR/66/27 | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'Classical theory of mesons' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha | [May 1939] |
| RR/72/28 | Letter from Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'On the stochastic theory of continuous parametric systems and its application to electron cascades' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 21 April 1950 |
| RR/57/103 | Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'The passage of fast electrons and the theory of cosmic showers' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha and Walter Heinrich Heitler | [December 1936] |
| RR/72/29 | Letter from Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'On the stochastic theory of continuous parametric systems and its application to electron cascades' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 15 August 1949 |
| RR/72/31 | Letter from Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On the stochastic theory of continuous parametric systems and its application to electron cascades' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha to David Brunt | 12 September 1949 |