Who among the following is best known as the Chief Architect of the Indian Atomic Energy Program?
Who among the following is best known as the Chief Architect of the Indian Atomic Energy Program?
Solution
Option 1 -> C.V. Raman was a Nobel laureate physicist famous for the Raman Effect, not primarily associated with atomic energy.
Option 2 -> Homi Jehangir Bhabha founded the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and served as the first chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission.
Option 3 -> Meghnad N. Saha was a renowned astrophysicist known for the Saha ionization equation, not atomic energy architecture.
Option 4 -> Vikram Sarabhai is recognized as the father of the Indian Space Program, not the atomic energy program.
Hence, Option 2: Homi Jehangir Bhabha -> He is universally acknowledged as the father and chief architect of India's nuclear/atomic energy program, having established its foundational institutions and vision in the 1940s-1960s -> correct
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