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Homi Sethna was born on 24 August, 1923 in Mumbai, Bombay Presidency, British India, is an Indian nuclear scientist and chemical engineer. Discover Homi Sethna's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 24 August, 1923
Birthday 24 August
Birthplace Mumbai, Bombay Presidency, British India
Date of death 5 September, 2010
Died Place Mumbai, India
Nationality India

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1923

Homi Nusserwanji Sethna (24 August 1923 – 5 September 2010) was an Indian nuclear scientist and a chemical engineer, gaining international fame as the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (India) during the time when the first nuclear test, codename Smiling Buddha in Pokhran Test Range in 1974 was conducted.

He was the primary and central figure in India's civilian nuclear program as well as the construction of nuclear power plants.

Sethna was born to a Parsi family on 24 August 1923 in Bombay (now Mumbai).

He did his schooling from St. Xavier's High School, Fort, Bombay.

He studied chemical engineering at University Department of Chemical Technology and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.

Homi Sethna's younger brother was the noted lawyer Rusi Sethna.

Incidentally, Rusi Sethna's daughter, Behrouz Mistry, is the wife of Shapoorji Mistry, elder son of Pallonji Mistry and elder brother of Cyrus Mistry.

1956

He was also the Project Manager of a 40 MW reactor called Canada-India Reactor in 1956–58.

1959

His first major challenging assignment was the setting up of the Plutonium Plant at Trombay in 1959.

This was designed and constructed entirely by Indian scientists and engineers under H. N. Sethna as the Project Engineer.

1967

The Uranium Mill at Jaduguda, Jharkhand was also constructed under his guidance in 1967.

1974

He was the guiding force behind the first peaceful nuclear explosion, Project Smiling Buddha in India on 18 May 1974, and in 1975, Homi Sethna, then chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Raja Ramanna and Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri (head of the DRDO) received the Padma Vibhushan.

1975

He was awarded the second highest civilian award the Padma Vibhushan in 1975, by Government of India.

Earlier in his career, he had full technical responsibility for setting up of the Thorium extraction plant at Alwaye, Kerala India, for separation of rare earth from monazite sands.

1976

He was formerly Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission, in 1976 he became the first chairman of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, located in Pune, Maharashtra.

He completed the construction of the Thorium plant and the plant for the production of nuclear grade uranium metal at Trombay, India.

1991

In 1991, he was appointed as Sheriff of Mumbai.