<Tr> <Th> Doctoral advisor </Th> <Td> Ralph H. Fowler </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Other academic advisors </Th> <Td> Paul Dirac </Td> </Tr> <P> Homi Jehangir Bhabha (30 October 1909--24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Colloquially known as "father of the Indian nuclear programme", Bhabha was also the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which is now named the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honor . TIFR and AEET were the cornerstone of Indian development of nuclear weapons which Bhabha also supervised as director . </P> <P> He then attended the Royal Institute of Science until 1927 before joining Caius College of Cambridge University . This was due to the insistence of his father and his uncle Dorab Tata, who planned for Bhabha to obtain a degree in mechanical engineering from Cambridge and then return to India, where he would join the Tata Steel or Tata Steel Mills in Jamshedpur as a metallurgist . </P>

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