During his university years in Cambridge,
Dr Homi Bhabha’s academic focus changed
from engineering to scientific research
Bakhtiar Dadabhoy
This extract from Homi J. Bhabha: A life by Bakhtiar K. Dadabhoy (Rupa Publications, 2023) has been reprinted in Parsiana with permission from the author and the publishers.
"Physics is my line … I am burning with a desire to do physics… I have no desire to be a ‘successful’ man or the head of a big firm,” read a letter dated August 8, 1928, from Dr Homi Bhabha to his father, Jehangir.
Gonville and Caius, the Cambridge University college to which Homi was admitted, not only has a double name but was also founded twice: first in 1384 by Edmund Gonville,......