Talk:Homi J. Bhabha

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I have improved the article quite a bit, but this article needs to be significantly expanded to give a true picture of him. In particular, details of how he established other institutions (BARC was originally a heavy water manufacturing facility, designed and built under his guidance; this and many other facts are there which I haven't yet included). If anyone familiar with him or his achievements reads this, please contribute to the article.Pratik.mallya (talk) 17:15, 23 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I've expanded the sections in the article quite a bit! I believe it's ready to be nominated for good article status now. Ishan Mukherjee (talk) 14:45, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Update: nominated. Ishan Mukherjee (talk) 21:00, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

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Choice of focus of his scientific studies
"During this time, nuclear physics was attracting the greatest minds and it was one of the most significantly emerging fields as compared to theoretical physics, the opposition towards theoretical physics attacked the field because it was lenient towards theories rather than proving natural phenomenon through experiments." - Really? Needs at least a reference but more likely a deletion in view of the sentence's presumptive and speculative nature.Gaussgauss (talk) 02:38, 10 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Couldn't find a reference for this claim, and might be giving undue weight to a POV, so I've removed it. Ishan Mukherjee (talk) 14:47, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Gujarati
What was the name of Dr Homi Jahangir bhabha's father? 2409:4041:2E1E:767C:2007:5E27:5B0E:332C (talk) 07:04, 14 July 2022 (UTC)


 * "His father was Jehangir Hormusji Bhabha, a well known Parsi lawyer." -- It is there in the article. Also, if you have future questions, Reference desk might be the better place to ask as article talk pages are for discussions to improve the article and questions left here may not be seen. &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 12:40, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Reporting on assassination claims
I'm removing the bolded sentence from the section on Bhabha's death, "...Douglas wrote that Crowley said that a bomb in the cargo section of the plane exploded mid-air, bringing down the commercial Boeing 707 airliner in Alps with few traces, saying: "We could have blown it up over Vienna but we decided the high mountains were much better for the bits and pieces to come down on". The Indian media proceeded to report on these claims largely unquestioned."

First, the bolded claim seems simply false. A quick Google search for "Bhabha assassination conspiracy" brings up several news articles that, while discussing the Douglas book, mention that it's only a conspiracy theory. See these Print and Statesman articles for example.

Second, and more important, this claim strikes me as WP:NOR. To quote Wikipedia's article, original research "includes any analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to reach or imply a conclusion not stated by the sources. To demonstrate that you are not adding original research, you must be able to cite reliable, published sources that are directly related to the topic of the article and directly support the material being presented." Unless a scholarly article is found which could be used to cite the claim that Indian reporting of the Douglas theory has been unquestioning, the claim shouldn't be included. Even if such an article is found, and if a decision is taken to include the claim, it should only be added as "[some author] has found that Indian reporting has been unquestioning".

Note that on the balance, I personally find the conspiracy theory unlikely. I imagine many editors of this article would, too. Of course, though, that's no reason to allow the inclusion of original research.

I've also added some evidence that theorists use to support the conspiracy from the Statesman article linked above. Ishan Mukherjee (talk) 14:58, 5 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for improving the article the way you are currently doing. &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 18:28, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

GA review result
@Ishan Mukherjee: Hi, would you like to work on the shortcomings raised in GA Review? I have fixed the image issue, but don't know much about the rest. &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 20:09, 22 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Been quite a while since you posted this, but I wanted to say: I think good article status would have felt nice, but paraphrasing the text would be both time-taking and unpleasant work. Also, the time I spend editing Wikipedia is pretty counterfactual -- I could be working on neglected articles instead. Ishan Mukherjee (talk) 10:38, 20 July 2024 (UTC)