#HistoryMeetsAI | Homi Bhabha, the 'father of India's #nuclear program,' died on January 24, 1966 in a plane crash near Mont Blanc, France. He was 56 years old.

In 1967, Indira Gandhi renamed the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay to be Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). Bhabha received a Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge University in 1935, studying the physics of cosmic rays. He returned to India in 1939.
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