Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, usually shortened to TIFR, is a national centre of the Government of India that operates under the umbrella of the Department of Atomic Energy and is also a deemed university awarding master's and doctoral degrees. It was founded in 1945 with support from the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, under the vision of Homi Bhabha. TIFR carries out basic research in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science and science education. Its main campus is in Mumbai, and it also has centres at Pune, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. For the space and astronomy side of the atlas the institute matters because its research includes cosmic ray studies, and because its Pune centre, listed on its site as NCRA, is the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, which this atlas covers as a separate entry. The institute is a research body rather than a flight agency, and it is filed here with the Asian space agencies because of that astronomy and space-science work.