Kamaluddin Ahmed (physicist)

Kamaluddin Ahmed (April 15, 1939 – June 10, 2014), FPAS, PP, was a Pakistani particle physicist and a professor of physics at the Quaid-e-Azam University.

Ahmed worked for the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission beginning in 1962.^[1] Beginning in 1966,^[2] he studied at the University of London under Abdus Salam and Paul Taunton Matthews.^[3]

He taught physics at Quaid-e-Azam University for 30 years,^[3] performed research at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna,^[2] and was a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 1974-75.^[2]

Honors

Ahmed was a fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences,^[1] and in 1979 and 1983 was invited to suggest nominations for the Nobel Prize in Physics.^[3] He also served as a senior research associate member with the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics beginning in 1991,^[1] and as president of the Pakistan Physics Society,^[3] and was twice awarded Pride of Performance.^[3]

Death

Ahmed died of hepatitis in 2014, while visiting relatives in the United States.^[3] A conference was held in his honor at the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology.^[2]

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