Residence Islamabad, Pakistan Nationality Pakistani Doctoral advisor Paul Taunton Matthews Resting place United States of America | Citizenship Pakistan Fields Particle Physics Other academic advisors Abdus Salam | |
Born April 15, 1939
New Delhi, British India
(Present-day India) ( 1939-04-15 ) Died 10 June 2014, Wisconsin, United States Alma maters University of the Punjab, University of London, Imperial College London Known for Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction, Quantum teleportation, Astroparticle physics Institutions Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Similar Abdus Salam, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Steven Weinberg | ||
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.
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Ahmed worked for the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission beginning in 1962. Beginning in 1966, he studied at the University of London under Abdus Salam and Paul Taunton Matthews.
He taught physics at Quaid-e-Azam University for 30 years, performed research at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, and was a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 1974-75.
Honors
Ahmed was a fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, and in 1979 and 1983 was invited to suggest nominations for the Nobel Prize in Physics. He also served as a senior research associate member with the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics beginning in 1991, and as president of the Pakistan Physics Society, and was twice awarded Pride of Performance.
Death
Ahmed died of hepatitis in 2014, while visiting relatives in the United States. A conference was held in his honor at the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology.