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Homi J. Bhabha: A Life is the first full-fledged biography of the theoretical physicist who foundedIndia’s nuclear programme. A Renaissance man, Bhabha was also a lover of music and an accomplishedpainter. A scientist and aesthete who was equally at home in the world of science and the arts, hewas both a visionary and a doer—a man of thought as well as a man of action. A great deal isknown of his astonishing intellect, but less about his human side. This biography combines bothaspects of him, presenting a more complete picture of the man.Bhabha’s life story also provides a good vehicle for telling the story of Indian science and thefoundations of India’s atomic energy programme. This biography is as much an early history of theTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and India’s atomic energy programme as it is anaccount of Bhabha’s life and work.Meticulously researched and narrated in rich, human, political and scientific detail, this biographytells the story of one of twentieth-century India’s greatest scientists and the country’s greatest-everscience administrator.