said the CIA was responsible for assassinating Homi Bhabha, as well as Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966, thirteen days apart, to thwart India's nuclear programme. According to Douglas, Crowley said that a bomb in the cargo section of the plane exploded mid-air, bringing down the commercial Boeing 707 airliner in Alps with few traces, saying "We could have blown it up over Vienna but we decided the high mountains were much better for the bits and pieces to come down on". The Indian media proceeded to report on these claims largely unquestioned. Legacy After his death, the Atomic Energy Establishment at Mumbai was renamed the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour. In addition to being an able scientist and administrator, Bhabha was also a painter and a classical music and opera enthusiast, besides being an amateur botanist. He is one of the most prominent scientists that India has ever had. Bhabha also encouraged research in electronics, space science, radio astronomy and microbiology. The famed radio telescope in Ooty, India was his initiative, and it became a reality in 1970. The Homi Bhabha Fellowship Council has been giving Homi Bhabha Fellowships since 1967. Other noted institutions in his name are the Homi Bhabha National Institute, an Indian-deemed university and the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai, India. At Bhabha's death, his estate including Mehrangir, the sprawling colonial bungalow at Malabar Hill where he spent most of his life, was inherited by his brother Jamshed Bhabha. Jamshed, an avid patron of arts and culture, bequeathed the bungalow and its contents to the National Centre for the Performing Arts, which auctioned the property for Rs 372 crores in 2014 to raise funds for upkeep and development of the centre. The bungalow was demolished in June 2016 by the owner, Smita-Crishna Godrej of the Godrej family, despite some efforts to have it preserved as a memorial to Homi Bhabha. In popular culture Rocket Boys (2022) is a web series inspired by the lives of Homi J. Bhabha, Vikram Sarabhai and A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. See also India's three-stage nuclear power programme Abdul Qadeer Khan Bertrand Goldschmidt Deng Jiaxian Igor Kurchatov J. Robert Oppenheimer William Penney, Baron Penney References Bibliography External links Annotated Bibliography for Homi J. Bhabha from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues. The Woodrow Wilson Center's Nuclear Proliferation International History Project. NPIHP has a series