Word: bhabha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Homi Jehangir Bhabha, 43, is a handsome, stocky physicist from Bombay, India. He speaks precise English with a Cambridge accent, and is an accomplished painter and violinist. At 31 he became a fellow of the Britain's Royal Society, and he is now the chairman of India's Atomic Energy Comission. In new York last week week, Dr Bhabha explained how India intends to lift itself by its atomic bootstraps...
...important asset, Physicist Bhabha believes, is India's tradition of learning, "Those Brahmans who sit on their bottoms all day," he says, "are not just siting. They are thinking, and they have been doing it for thousands of years. When the young ones turn their thinking to physics, they quickly get rather good...
Push of Need. Another Indian asset is it's need for power. If India is to develop its mineral deposits, increase it's food productions and industrialize its economy, it will need more energy than can come from all its badly distributed coal and water power. Dr. Bhabha believes that atomic energy is India's best bet, and that the country's need will force India to put atomic energy to work quickly...
...mined economically by cheap hand labor. Probably more important are India's thorium deposits, the richest in the world. Thorium cannot be used directly as nuclear fuel. It must be turned into uranium 233 in a reactor, just as uranium 238 is turned into plutonium. Dr. Bhabha thinks that this conversion may be standard practice a few years from now. Uranium 233 derived from thorium is in many important respects the most desirable of all the nuclear fuels...