https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha#Death

He rubbed shoulders with giants of Theoretical Physics, and was on the verge of taking India into the nuclear club, in 1966.

Its speculated (including an ex-CIA anecdote) that he was assasinated. USA couldn't handle the fact of India growing into a Nuclear and Space power. Another Indian scientist Sarabhai also died under suspicious circumstances. But Bhabha's seemed especially a strategic concern for US policy in those days.

USA and India were 'almost enemies' in those decades, a period when India refused to be bullied by either side.

For a second, I thought this was about Homi K. Bhabha, notorious among other things for this gem of a sentence:

"If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to 'normalise' formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality."

Dr. Bhabha belonged to a special generation of Indian scientists like C.V. Raman, Raja Ramanna etc who were well respected by their peers in East and West.

The TV series Rocket Boys is a fictionalised account of Dr. Bhabha (Father of Indian atomic program) and Dr. Sarabhai (Father of Indian space program).

1: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13868972/

Terrific profile. There are several institutions in India named after him such as the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bhabha Hospital, etc.

Thanks so much for sharing that!

I had been unaware of Mr. Bhabha, before this.

He was pretty awesome dude.