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Which famous scientist, upon completion of a famous nuclear project said: "Now I have become Death, the destroyer of Worlds."

  1. Robert Oppenheimer

  2. Homi Bhabha

  3. Werner von Braun

  4. Anil Kakodkar
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Oppenheimer quoted this ancient Sanskrit verse from the Bhagavad Gita after witnessing the first atomic bomb test, reflecting his moral conflict about creating nuclear weapons. Homi Bhabha was India's nuclear pioneer, Werner von Braun developed rockets, and Anil Kakodkar was a later Indian nuclear scientist.

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