Homi J. Bhabha

Homi J. Bhabha wrote to the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust in 1944 asking for support for a school of fundamental research, and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research opened in Bombay in 1945. He then built India's atomic energy establishment at Trombay, now the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, recruiting and training a generation of Indian physicists and mathematicians. He died in an air crash in 1966.