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Homi J. Bhabha

1909 - 1966

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Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FNI, FASc, FRS, Hon.FRSE (30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding director and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), as well as the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which was renamed the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour. TIFR and AEET served as the cornerstone of the Indian nuclear energy and weapons programme. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Homi J. Bhabha has received more than 6,613,732 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Homi J. Bhabha is the 375th most popular physicist (up from 414th in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from India (up from 281st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Over the past year Homi J. Bhabha has had the most page views in the with 1,000,965 views, followed by Hindi (87,163), and Marathi (47,009). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Chinese (255.98%), Thai (113.99%), and Georgian (72.27%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Homi J. Bhabha ranks 375 out of 851. Before him are Jean-Antoine Nollet, Carlo Matteucci, Vladimir Shukhov, Carl Wieman, Yoshio Nishina, and Jurij Vega. After him are Peter Mansfield, John Mauchly, Nathan Rosen, Ralph Asher Alpher, Georgy Flyorov, and Duncan Haldane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Homi J. Bhabha ranks 81. Before him are C. Northcote Parkinson, Gottfried von Cramm, Porfirio Rubirosa, Ben Webster, Stavros Niarchos, and William M. Branham. After him are Albert R. Broccoli, Willi Boskovsky, Juan Carlos Onetti, Malcolm Lowry, Nathan Rosen, and Tokizo Ichihashi. Among people deceased in 1966, Homi J. Bhabha ranks 63. Before him are Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, Margaret Sanger, Hendrik Verwoerd, Yasuji Okamura, Gustavo Marzi, and Edward Gordon Craig. After him are Amédée Ozenfant, Fritz Wunderlich, Edmond Locard, Marguerite Long, Elena Stasova, and Vera Weizmann.

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In India

Among people born in India, Homi J. Bhabha ranks 227 out of 1,861. Before him are Rani Durgavati (1524), Nizamuddin Auliya (1238), Rajaraja I (947), Amrapali (-450), Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (1556), and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887). After him are Mir Taqi Mir (1723), Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905), Raja Ravi Varma (1848), Dignāga (480), Dashrath Manjhi (1934), and Shah Alam II (1728).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Homi J. Bhabha ranks 5. Before him are C. V. Raman (1888), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Anna Mani (1918), and Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936). After him are Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Tom Kibble (1932), Raja Ramanna (1925), Daulat Singh Kothari (1906), and Abhay Ashtekar (1949).

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