Bakhtaver Mahajan, a retired scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, was at the grounds with her husband and a friend, both retired scientists as well.

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He had stories dating back to before some of his admirers were born, such as the time in 1939 when he and Leo Szilard, another Hungarian scientist, persuaded Albert Einstein to write to President Roosevelt, urging the need to make an atomic bomb before the Germans did.

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