Jamal Nazrul Islam (24 February 1939 – 16 March 2013) was a Bangladeshi mathematical physicist and cosmologist. He was a professor at University of Chittagong, served as a member of the advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and member of the syndicate at Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology until his death . He also served as the director of the Research Center for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (RCMPS) at the University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2000 by the Government of Bangladesh.
Rahi matwale sung by professor dr jamal nazrul islam
Early life and education
Islam was born on 24 February 1939 in Jhenaidah, East Bengal. His father, Khan Bahadur Sirajul Islam, was a sub-judge in British India. Because of his father's job, Islam spent his early school years in Calcutta. He studied at Chittagong Collegiate School and College until class ix and then he went to Lawrence College, Murree in West Pakistan to pass the Senior Cambridge and Higher Senior Cambridge exams. He received a BSc degree from St. Xavier's College at the University of Calcutta. In 1959, he got his Honors in Functional Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University. He completed his Masters in 1960. A student of the Trinity College, he finished the Mathematical Tripos. Islam obtained his PhD in applied mathematics and theoretical physics from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1968, followed by a DSc in 1982.
Academic career
Islam worked in the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy (later amalgamated to Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge) from 1967 until 1971. Later he worked as a researcher in California Institute of Technology and University of Washington. During 1973-1974 he served as the faculty of Applied Mathematics of King's College London. In 1978 he then joined the faculty of City University London until he returned to Chittagong in 1984. In 2006, he was made Professor Emeritus at the University of Chittagong.
His research areas include Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, Mathematical Physics, theory of Gravitation, General Relativity, Mathematical Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory. Islam authored/coauthored/edited more than 50 scientific articles, books and some popular articles published in various scientific journals. Besides this he has also written books in Bengali. Particularly noteworthy are Black Hole, published by the Bangla Academy, “The Mother Tongue, Scientific Research and other Articles” and “Art, Literature and Society”. The latter two are compilations.
In 1997, Islam was invited to the International Symposium on Mathematical Physics in memory of S. Chandrasekhar with a special session on Abdus Salam arranged by Calcutta Mathematical Society in Kolkata-India. Professor Narayan Chandra Ghosh, a mathematician of India, was director of the noted symposium.
Medal Lecture award from Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze (1998)
Bangladesh National Award for Science and Technology (1998)
Ekushey Padak (2001)
Razzak-Shamsun Lifetime Achievement Award in Physics from the University of Dhaka (2011)
Books authored/coauthored/edited
Islam, J.N. (1983): The Ultimate Fate of the Universe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England. ISBN 978-0-521-11312-0. (Digital print version published in 2009).
Bonnor, W.B., Islam, J.N., MacCallum, M.A.H. (eds.)(1983): Classical General Relativity: Proceedings of the Conference on Classical (Non-Quantum) General Relativity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England. ISBN 0-521-26747-1.
Islam, J.N. (1985): Rotating Fields in General Relativity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England. ISBN 978-0-521-11311-3. (Digital print version published in 2009).
Islam, J.N. (1992, 2nd edition 2001): An Introduction to Mathematical Cosmology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England. ISBN 0-521-49973-9.
Scholarly articles
Islam, J.N.: Modified Mandelstam Representation for Heavy Particles. J. Math. Phys.3, 1098-1106 (1962). DOI:10.1063/1.1703852
Islam, J.N.: Acnodes and Cusps and the Mandelstam Representation. J. Math. Phys.4, 872-878 (1963). DOI:10.1063/1.1704012
Islam, J.N., Kim, Y.S.: Analytic Property of Three-Body Unitarity Integral. Phys. Rev.138, B1222–B1229 (1965). DOI:10.1103/PhysRev.138.B1222
Islam, J.N.: Leading Landau Curves of a Class of Feynman Diagrams. J. Math. Phys.7, 652-660 (1966). DOI:10.1063/1.1704978
Islam, J.N.: Green Function Formulation of the Dirac Field in Curved Space. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A294, 437-448 (1966). DOI:10.1098/rspa.1966.0217
Islam, J.N.: Field Equations in the Neighbourhood of a Particle in a Conformal Theory of Gravitation. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A306, 487-501 (1968). DOI:10.1098/rspa.1968.0163
Islam, J.N.: Field Equations in the Neighbourhood of a Particle in a Conformal Theory of Gravitation. II. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A313, 71-82 (1969). DOI:10.1098/rspa.1969.0180
Islam, J.N.: Some general relativistic inequalities for a star in hydrostatic equilibrium. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.145, 21-29 (1969).
Islam, J.N.: Some general relativistic inequalities for a star in hydrostatic equilibrium-II. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.147, 377-386 (1970).
Islam, J.N.: A class of approximate exterior rotating solutions of Einstein's equations. Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc.79, 161-166 (1976). DOI:10.1017/S0305004100052178
Islam, J.N.: On the existence of a general rotating solution of Einstein's equations. Gen. Relativ. Gravit.7, 809-815 (1976) DOI:10.1007/BF00778760
Islam, J.N.: A class of approximate stationary solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations. Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 7, 669-680 (1976). DOI:10.1007/BF00770723
Islam, J.N.: Possible Ultimate Fate of the Universe. Quart. J. R. Astron. Soc.18, 3-8 (1977).
Islam, J.N.: On the static field in general relativity. Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc.81, 485-496 (1977). DOI:10.1017/S0305004100053548
Islam, J.N.: On the static field in general relativity: II. Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc.83, 299-306 (1978). DOI:10.1017/S0305004100054566
Islam, J.N.: On the stationary axisymmetric Einstein-Maxwell equations. Gen. Relativ. Gravit.9, 687-690 (1978). DOI:10.1007/BF00760140
Islam, J.N.: A Class of Exact Interior Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell Equations. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A353, 523-531 (1977). DOI:10.1098/rspa.1977.0048
Islam, J.N.: The Ultimate Fate of the Universe. Sky & Telescope57, 13-18 (1979).
Islam, J.N.: The long-term future of the universe. Vistas in Astronomy23, 265–277 (1979). DOI:10.1016/0083-6656(79)90014-X
Islam, J.N.: Recently Found Solution of Einstein's Equations. Phys. Rev. Lett.43, 601-602 (1979) DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.601
Islam, J.N.: The Far Future of the Universe. Endeavour, 8, 32-34 (1984). DOI:10.1016/0160-9327(84)90127-3
Islam, J.N.: On Rotating Charged Dust in General Relativity. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A362, 329-340 (1978). DOI:10.1098/rspa.1978.0136
Islam, J.N.: On Rotating Charged Dust in General Relativity. II. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A367, 71-280 (1979). DOI:10.1098/rspa.1979.0087
Islam, J.N.: On Rotating Charged Dust in General Relativity. III. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A372, 111-115 (1980). DOI:10.1098/rspa.1980.0104
Islam, J.N.: On rotating charged dust in general relativity. IV. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A385, 189-205 (1983). DOI:10.1098/rspa.1983.0010
Islam, J.N.: On Rotating Charged Dust in General Relativity. V. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A389, 291-298 (1983). DOI:10.1098/rspa.1983.0110
Islam, J.N., Schutz, B.F.: Motion of primordial black holes in the early universe and their likely distribution today. Gen. Relativ. Gravit.12, 881-893 (1980). DOI:10.1007/BF00757357
Islam, J.N.: The cosmological constant and classical tests of general relativity. Phys. Lett. A97, 239–241 (1983). DOI:10.1016/0375-9601(83)90756-9
Boachie, L. A., Islam, J.N.: On a certain solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations. Phys. Lett. A93, 321–322 (1983). DOI:10.1016/0375-9601(83)90107-X
Islam, J.N.: Closed form for Van Stockum interior solution of Einstein's equations. Phys. Lett. A94, 421–423 (1983). DOI:10.1016/0375-9601(83)90843-5
Islam, J.N., Bergh, N. V. d., Wils, P.: General solutions for axisymmetric differentially rotating charged dust with vanishing Lorentz force. Class. Quant. Grav.1, 705-714 (1984) DOI:10.1088/0264-9381/1/6/014
Islam, J.N.: On Yang-Mills Theory in the Temporal Gauge. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A421, 279-301 (1989). DOI:10.1098/rspa.1989.0012
Islam, J.N.: Schrödinger Functional Equation for Yang-Mills Theory. Prog. Theor. Phys.89, 161-185 (1993) Link 1 DOI:10.1143/ptp/89.1.161 Link 2 DOI:10.1143/ptp/89.1.161
Islam, J.N.: The Schrödinger equation in quantum field theory. Found. Phys.24, 593-630 (1994). DOI:10.1007/BF02054667
Azad, A.K., Islam, J.N.: Cosmological constant in the Bianchi type-I-modified Brans-Dicke cosmology. Pramana J. Phys.60, 21-27 (2003). DOI:10.1007/BF02705065
Islam, M.A., Islam, J.N.: Anharmonic solution of Schrödinger time-independent equation. Pramana J. Phys.77, 243-261 (2011). DOI:10.1007/s12043-011-0101-8
Firoz, K.A., Moon, Y.-J., Park, S.-H., Kudela, K., Islam, J.N., Dorman, L. I.: On the Possible Mechanisms of Two Ground-level Enhancement Events. ApJ743, 190 (18pp) (2011) DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/743/2/190
Panna, N., Islam, J.N.: Construction of an Exact Solution of Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau Equations by Standard Integral for Front Propagation in Superconductors. Science Journal Of Mathematics and Statistics2012, Article ID sjms-101, 4 Pages, (2012). DOI:10.7237/sjms/101
Panna, N., Islam, J.N.: Construction of an exact solution of time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations and determination of the superconducting-normal interface propagation speed in superconductors. Interaction of Lasers with Atoms, Molecules and Clusters University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 9–12 January 2012. (Forthcoming)