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HOMI BHABHA |
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Education
and Research
Bhabha was educated at the Cathedral and John Cannon High School. He was a merit student.
He won many prizes at school.
At the age of 15, Bhabha passed the Senior Cambridge Examination.
Later he entered Elphinstone College and the Royal Institute of Science, Bombay. He
continued his studies here for two years.
Bhabha loved Physics. Mathematics was also his favorite subject. But his father wanted him
to become an engineer. Bhabha respected the wishes of his father. He left India for
Cambridge to study Engineering. Bhabha passed the Mechanical Engineering Tripos in
the first class in 1930. He then pursued his studies in Theoretical Physics as a Research
Scholar.
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