Salimuzzaman Siddiqui
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Prof. Dr. Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (1897-1994) was a leading Pakistani scientist, an eminent literary personality, a painter, and a great connoisseur of music.
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[edit] Life
Salimuzzan was born in a literary family of Lucknow on October 19, 1897. Received his early education from Lucknow, Graduated from M.A.O College Aligarh University in 1919 and in 1927 received Doctor of Philosophy D.Phil. Nat, for his work in Germany. He, right from his early schooling, was keenly involved in drawing, painting and sculpture, to the extent that after barely completing his matriculation he joined the Calcutta School of Arts, and was a pupil of Rabindranath Tagore, the founder of the famous Bengal School of painting.
[edit] In Pakistan
After the emergence of Pakistan in 1947, he was entrusted by the government of Pakistan in 1951 with the organization of the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and continued as its director and chairman until 1966. Since then he had been involved in establishing the H.E.J Research Institute of Chemistry at the Karachi University, which has acquired international stature as a center of research in the chemistry and natural products.
[edit] Awards and honors
Dr. Siddiqui was a founder-member of the Indian and Pakistan Academies of Sciences. Among the many of his honours, following are the few
- D. Med. Honoris causa from the Frankfurt University, 1958.
- Fellow of the Royal Society, 1961,
- Tamgha-e-Pakistan, 1958
- Sitara-e-Imtiaz, 1962
- President of Pakistan's Pride of Performance Medal, 1966
- Hilal-e-Imtiaz, 1980
- Gold medal of the Soviet Academy of Sciences,
[edit] Death
He died on April 14, 1994 in Karachi, buried in KU Graveyard.
