October 30: An Important Day in Indian Atomic History
Do you know who is known as the Father of the Indian Atomic Program?
The Bosphorus bridge of Turkey has played a major role in world trade for centuries. It connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara and eventually, through the Dardanelles strait, with the Mediterranean. Read the blog to know the facts about October 30.
1909 – Birth Anniversary of Homi J. Bhabha
(Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha)
Homi Jehangir Bhabha (30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian atomic physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Casually known as “father of the Indian atomic program”, he was likewise the establishing overseer of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which is presently named the Bhabha Atomic Research Center in his honor.
TIFR and AEET were the foundations of Indian improvement of atomic weapons which Bhabha additionally administered as chief. He was additionally granted the Adams Prize (1942) and Padma Bhushan (1954) and was designated for the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951 and 1953–1956.
1833 – Assassination of Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Dayananda Saraswati( 12 February 1824 – 30 October 1883) was an Indian scholar, a social pioneer, and founder of the Arya Samaj, a change development of the Vedic dharma. He was the first to give the call for Swaraj as “India for Indians” in 1876, a call later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak. Revealing the excessive admiration and formal love common in India at that point, he ran after restoring Vedic belief systems. In this way, the scholar and President of India, S. Radhakrishnan called him one of the “creators of Modern India”.
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1960 – First Kidney Transplantation of the World
(A Representation of Transplant)
The first successful kidney transplant took place in the UK on October 30, 1960. It was performed in the Edinburgh milestone by Sir Michael Woodruff and his team. The transplant was performed between two identical twins and hence known as a milestone in the history of transplantation and the history of the RIE.
1973 – Construction of Bosphorus Bridge got completed
The Bosphorus Bridge referred to authoritatively as the 15 July Martyrs Bridge and informally as the First Bridge, is one of the three engineered overpasses crossing the Bosphorus waterway in Istanbul, Turkey, in this manner connecting Europe and Asia. The bridge was finished on 30 October 1973, one day after the 50th commemoration of the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, and opened by President Fahri Korutürk and Prime Minister Naim Talu.
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