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Pakistani Scientists
This is a list of prominent Pakistani scientists. A *,Afsar Mian,Genetist and Ecologist * Abdul Hameed Nayyar, physicist * Sitara Brooj Akbar, Scientist and Child prodigy * Qamar Muneer Akbar, Computer Scientist and child prodigy * Abdul Majid (physicist), Abdul Majid, rocket scientist and engineer * Abdul Qadeer Khan, metallurgical engineer * Abdullah Sadiq, nuclear physicist * Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist (Nobel Laureate 1979) * Ahmad Hasan Dani, archaeologist * Ansar Pervaiz, nuclear scientist * Anwar Nasim, molecular biologist * Arif Zaman, mathematician and statistician * Asad A. Abidi, electrical engineer * Asghar Qadir, mathematician and cosmologist * Atta ur Rahman (scientist), Atta ur Rahman, organic chemist * Awais Khan (plant geneticist), Awais Khan, plant geneticist B * Bina Shaheen Siddiqui, chemist F * Faheem Hussain, theoretical physicist * Fayyazuddin, theoretical physicist * Faiz jalil , technology scientist Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Sitrara I imtiaz G * Gh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faheem Hussain
Faheem Hussain (31 July 1942 – 29 September 2009), was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and a professor of physics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). A research scientist in the field of superstring theory at the National Center for Physics, Hussain made contributions to the fields of superstring and string theory. He was the first Pakistani physicist to publish a research paper in the field of superstring theory. A social activist and democratic activist, he authored various scientific research papers in peer-reviewed journals. Education and early life Faheem Hussain was born in Yavatmal, Maharashtra, British India in 1942. His family moved to West Pakistan shortly before the Partition of India on 14 August 1947. He graduated from St. Anthony's High School, Lahore, in 1955 and then enrolled in Forman Christian College. After receiving his double BSc(Hons) in Mathematics and Physics from Forman Christian College in 1960, he moved to the Great Britain. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javaid Laghari
Javaid Laghari (Urdu: جاويد لغارى) ''TI'' is a Pakistani American who has served as the Chairperson of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan from August 2009 to August 2013 with the status of a Federal Minister. Publications Books * ''Solomon’s Dream'', January 2023, Amazon Publishing, ISBN 979-83-742-07-330 * ''Solomon's Magic'', November 2022, Amazon Publishing, ISBN 979-83-659-20-354 * ''Solomon's Demon'', August 2022, Amazon Publishing, ISBN 979-884-8052-107 * ''Challenges in Higher Education'', June 2021, Amazon Publishing, ISBN 979-851-8200-623 * ''Ifrit Ifrit, also spelled as efreet, afrit, and afreet ( ), plural ), is a powerful type of demon in Islamic culture. The ''ʿafārīt'' are often associated with the underworld and identified with the spirits of the dead, and have been compared t ...'', January 2019, Austin Macauley, * ''Reflections on Benazir Bhutto'', SZABIST Publication, , February 2008. * ''Leaders of Pakistan'', SZABIST ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismat Beg
Ismat Beg (Urdu: عصمت بیگ; born January 1951) is a Pakistani mathematician and academic. He serves as Distinguished National Professor at the Lahore School of Economics and has held faculty positions at universities in Pakistan and abroad. His research contributions span fixed point theory, fuzzy sets, order structures, artificial intelligence, and multicriteria decision-making. Early life and education Beg was born in January 1951 in Mohri Sharif, a village near Kharian, to a Kashmiri immigrant family. He attended Sapper Boys High School in Risalpur and later studied at Zamindar College in Gujrat. He earned his master's degree in mathematics from Government College University (Lahore). In 1977, he traveled to Romania, where he completed pre-doctoral studies at the West University of Timișoara and obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Bucharest in 1982 under the supervision of Romulus Cristescu. His doctoral research focused on ordered vector spaces a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ishrat Hussain Usmani
Ishrat Hussain Usmani () (15 April 1917 – 17 June 1992) , best known as I. H. Usmani, was a Pakistani atomic physicist, and later a public official who chaired the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 1960 to 1971 as well as overseeing the establishment of the Space Research Commission. His career was mostly spent in the Government of Pakistan as a public policy official where he pushed for peaceful and commercial usage of the nuclear energy, and later working on arms control with Ministry of Defense to become a party of Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963 before joining the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as its Chair of its Board of Governors. Usmani oversaw the nuclear power generation in Pakistan, working towards commissioning the nuclear power grid station in Karachi, and strengthened the role of the atomic energy commission at the United Nations. Biography Ishrat Hussain Usmani was born in Delhi in India on 15 April 1917. Usmani hailed from a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ishfaq Ahmad
Ishfaq Ahmad (3 November 1930 – 18 January 2018) , was a Pakistani nuclear physicist, emeritus professor of high-energy physics at the National Centre for Physics, and former science advisor to the Government of Pakistan. A versatile theoretical physicist, Ahmad made significant contributions in the theoretical development of the applications and concepts involving the particle physics, and its relative extension to the quantum electrodynamics, while working as senior research scientist at the CERN in the 1960s and 1970s. Joining the PAEC in the late 1950s, Ahmad served as the director of the Nuclear Physics Division at the secret Pinstech Institute which developed the first designs of atomic bombs, a clandestine project during the post-1971 war. There, he played an influential role in leading the physics and mathematical calculations in the critical mass of the weapons, and did theoretical work on the implosion method used in the weapons. Since the 1960s and onwards, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irshad Hussain
Irshad Hussain () is a Pakistani scientist in the field of chemistry and among the few pioneers to initiate nanomaterials research in Pakistan. He is among the founding faculty members of SBA School of Science and Engineering and played a key role in the development of the chemistry department at Lahore University of Management Sciences (during 2010–2016). He is a tenured professor in the department of chemistry and chemical engineering at SBA School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences, and has previously also served as a professor of renewable energy engineering at the US–Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy at the University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, while on sabbatical leave in 2017. Hussain has also served as the chair of the National Nanotech Experts Panel at Pakistan Council for Science and Technology in 2015 and was awarded gold medals in chemistry by Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS) in 2007 (Prof. Atta-ur-Rah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irfan Siddiqi
Irfan Siddiqi (born March 4, 1976) is an American physicist and currently a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He currently is the director of the Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory at UC Berkeley and the Advanced Quantum Testbed at LBNL. Siddiqi is known for groundbreaking contributions to the field of superconducting quantum circuits, including dispersive single-shot readout of superconducting quantum bits, quantum feedback, observation of single quantum trajectories, and near-quantum limited microwave frequency amplification. In addition to other honors, for his pioneering work in superconducting devices, he was awarded with the American Physical Society George E. Valley, Jr. Prize in 2006, "for the development of the Josephson bifurcation amplifier for ultra-sensitive measurements at the quantum limit." Siddiqi is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iqbal Hussain Qureshi
Iqbal Hussain Qureshi (Urdu: اقبال حسين قریشی) (27 September 1937 – 8 December 2012) , best known as I.H. Qureshi, was a Pakistani nuclear chemist and an Emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Karachi. Qureshi was the principal contributor of scientific understanding of various chemical elements: bismuth, cobalt, strontium, thallium, tritium, iron, rubidium, and zinc. His career was mostly spent with the Government of Pakistan after leaving his research work at the national laboratories, and advising the government on nuclear policy issues. He pushed his influential role at the Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA) and the peaceful applications of nuclear science. He spent many years as an educator and research scientist at the Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Nilore before taking a professorship at the Karachi University. Biography Iqbal Hussain Qureshi was born on 27 September 1937 in Ajmer, Rajasthan in India where he rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haroon Ahmed
Haroon Ahmed, FREng (2 March 1936 – 23 October 2024), was a British-Pakistani scientist who specialised in the fields of microelectronics and electrical engineering. He was Emeritus Professor of Microelectronics at the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge, Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Early life and education Ahmed was born on 2 March 1936 in Calcutta (then part of British India). His family later emigrated to England in 1954 and settled in London. He was educated at St Patrick's High School, Karachi, followed by an undergraduate degree at Imperial College London. He went on to obtain his PhD in 1963 and his Doctor of Science degrees in 1996 from the University of Cambridge. Career Ahmed was appointed a faculty member of the Engineering Department, Cambridge in 1963 and worked there for 20 years before moving to the Physics Department where he was promoted to Profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakeem Muhammad Saeed
Hakeem Muhammad Saeed (; 9 January 1920 – 17 October 1998) was a Pakistani medical researcher, author, scholar, and philanthropist. He served as governor of Sindh Province from 19 July 1993 until 23 January 1994. Saeed was one of Pakistan's most prominent medical researchers in the field of Eastern medicine. He established the Hamdard Foundation in 1948, prior to his settlement in West Pakistan. In the next few years, the herbal medical products of the Hamdard Foundation became household names in Pakistan. Hakeem Muhammad Saeed authored and compiled about 200 books on medicine, philosophy, science, health, religion, natural medicine, literature, social issues, as well as travelogues. In 1981, Saeed became one of the founding member of the World Cultural Council, a nonprofit international organization, based in Mexico. On 17 October 1998, Hakeem Saeed was assassinated by a group of unknown assailants while he was on his way to attend a medical experiment at the Hamdard Labor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghulam Murtaza (physicist)
Ghulam Murtaza (born 3 January 1939), , is a Pakistani theoretical physicist with a specialization in the physics of ionized plasmas, and is an Emeritus Professor of physics at the Government College University in Lahore. Murtaza's work is recognizable in plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion processes to provide a better understanding of energy propagated by the main-sequence star, the Sun. From 2000 till 2020, Murtaza served on the science faculty of the Government College University where he directed the Abdus Salam Chair in Physics. Biography Ghulam Murtaza was born in Amritsar, Punjab in the British Indian Empire on 3 January 1939, and was educated in Lahore. Murtaza attended the Government College University in Lahore where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in physics in 1958– his graduation was noted when he was awarded the Roll of Honour during the ceremony. He then entered the Punjab University in Lahore and graduated with a Master of Arts (M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
