Ghulam Dastagir Alam
Pakistani theoretical physicist and professor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ghulam Dastagir Alam Qasmi (Urdu: غلام دستگیر عالم قاسمی; popularly known as G.D. Alam; PhD, HI), was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and professor of mathematics at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Alam is best known for conceiving and embarking on research on the gas centrifuge during Pakistan's integrated atomic bomb project in the 1970s, and he also conceived the research on charge density, nuclear fission, and gamma-ray bursts throughout his career.[1][2]
Ghulam Dastagir Alam Qasmi | |
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Born | 1937 |
Died | 5 December 2000 |
Nationality | Pakistan |
Citizenship | Pakistan |
Alma mater | Government College University Punjab University University College London |
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Awards | Hilal-e-Imtiaz (1983) |
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Fields | Theoretical physics |
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Doctoral advisor | J. B. Hasted |
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After the atomic bomb project, Alam joined the Department of Mathematics at the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) as well as serving as visiting faculty at the Institute of Physics, and co-authored papers on variation calculus and fission isomer. He was one of the notable theoretical physicists at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and QAU. At one point, his fellow theorist, Munir Ahmad Khan, called Alam "the problem solving brain of the PAEC".: 155 [3]