Fazley Bary Malik (died July 4, 2014) was a Bangladeshi physicist. He was a professor of theoretical nuclear and atomic physics at

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from 1980 until 2014. He was a Fellow of

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. He was awarded John Wheatley Award by American Physical Society in 2007.

Education

Malik completed his bachelor's from

Calcutta University The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate State university (India), state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered ...

in 1953 and master's from the

University of Dhaka The University of Dhaka (also known as Dhaka University, or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest university in Bangladesh. The university opened its doors to students on July 1st 1921. Currently i ...

in 1955. He obtained his Ph.D. from the

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in 1958 under the supervision of Nobel Laureate professor

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. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the

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during 1960–63.

Career

Malik started his career as an assistant professor at the

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(1964–68). He then served as a professor at

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(1968–82). He then worked as a research professor at

until 2015. Malik served either as a consultant or visiting scholar or professor at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,

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, Kapitza Institute, CERN,

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and the universities in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, China and Australia.

Awards and honors

* Max Planck Societies Senior Fellow (1976 - 1977) * Fulbright Scholar (1987) * Outstanding Scholar of SIUC (1996) * NASA/ASEE Summer Fellow (1992, 1993) * Fellow of

(since 2002) * John Wheatley Award (2007)

Personal life

Malik married Akemi Oikawa and had one child, Akira. On July 4, 2014, Malik died in

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in Turkey on his way from Bangladesh to the United States. He was buried on July 7 in Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

References

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