Freedom fighters · Science & public service · 1909–1966
Homi J. Bhabha
Architect of India's nuclear science institutions. Built TIFR and the early atomic energy path so research talent would not have to leave to matter.
Bhabha pushed for Indian centres of excellence after independence. Controversies around nuclear policy belong to politics. His institutional fight was clear: India must own hard science capacity.
Nation-building needs physicists and labs as much as slogans.
Why on this wall
Scientific institutions as sovereignty.