Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Research institute in Colaba, Mumbai, India
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research is a research establishment and university in Colaba, Mumbai, with several buildings on a waterfront campus. The facility has laboratories for physics and biology alongside computer halls and lecture rooms for theoretical courses.
Homi Jehangir Bhabha founded the establishment in 1945 with support from the Tata family to build advanced scientific research in India. The years following independence brought physicists and mathematicians here who worked on fundamental problems while seeking international collaboration.
The institute admits doctoral candidates from across India and trains them in advanced scientific methods. Its library houses academic journals and research databases that scientists use daily in their work.
The establishment sits in Colaba near the southern tip of Mumbai and can be reached by public transport or taxi. Most areas are not open to the public, but occasional lectures or events may welcome outside visitors.
The establishment built TIFRAC, the first digital computer in India, which performed complex calculations for theoretical research in the late 1950s. Later it also operated the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope near Pune, which receives radio waves from space.
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