Homi J. Bhabha, an Indian nuclear scientist, died in 1966 at the age of 56.
Homi Jehangir Bhabha is widely regarded as the founder of India's nuclear programme. Without his significant contributions to India's nuclear programme from the 1940s through the 1960s, India would not be the nuclear-powered and armed nation that it is today. In 1951 and 1953–1956, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. Bhabha was born into a well-to-do Parsi family. On January 24, 1966, Bhabha was murdered when Air India Flight 101 crashed near Mont Blanc. The stated cause of the tragedy, which killed India's brightest and most significant nuclear physicist, was a "misunderstanding" between Geneva Airport and the pilot over the aircraft's position near a mountai
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