Doctor abdul qadeer khan biography book

  • Corera chronicles his book as a loose biography of Dr. Khan.
  • AQ Khan, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer who is colloquially known as the father of Pakistan's atomic weapons program.
  • Abdul Qadeer Khan, NI, HI, FPAS, known as AQ Khan, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer who is colloquially known as the father of.

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    Abdul Qadeer Khan

    Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936–2021)

    For the cricketer named Abdul Qadeer Khan, see Abdul Qadir (cricketer).

    Abdul Qadeer Khan, NI, HI, FPAS (AHB-dəl KAH-deer KAHN; Urdu: عبد القدیر خان; 1 April 1936 – 10 October 2021),[3] known as A. Q. Khan, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer who is colloquially known as the "father of Pakistan's atomic weapons program".[a]

    An émigré (Muhajir) from India who migrated to Pakistan in 1952, Khan was educated in the metallurgical engineering departments of Western European technical universities where he pioneered studies in phase transitions of metallic alloys, uranium metallurgy, and isotope separation based on gas centrifuges. After learning of India's "Smiling Buddha" nuclear test in 1974, Khan joined his nation's clandestine efforts to develop atomic weapons when he founded the Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) in 1976 and was both its chief scientist and director for

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    3.0 out of 5 starsGood investigative journalism

    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2012

    This book was written by a reporter working for the BBC. It investigates how Pakistan set up its nuclear schema and succeeded in producing the A-bomb, thanks in large part to the project's mastermind: Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan. The author draws on a bred range of sources for his research, including: press articles, interviews, academic scholarship, TV bulletins, and reports published bygd various NGOs and UN institutions.

    Corera chronicles his book as a loose biography of Dr. Khan. Beginning in the early 1970s, he describes how Khan studied metallurgical engineering at Dutch and German universities. Khan decided to keep illegal copies of important research information. This policy of storing sensitive upplysning was of great importance in Khan's career, and was the source of his later political influence. It opened the doors of Pakistan's elite to him, and led to his appointm

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    KARACHI: A book highlighting the services of late Dr A. Q. Khan was launched at Karachi University (KU) on Monday to mark the first death anniversary of the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme.

    Titled Dr A. Q. Khan: Contribution to Science, Technology and Education, the book is co-authored by senior KU teachers Prof Abid Azhar and Prof Raza Shah.

    Speaking at the ceremony, former KU vice chancellor Prof Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui, who was the chief guest, said Dr Khan’s love for the motherland was unconditional and so was the nation’s love for him.

    “Dr Khan went to Europe for advanced studies in his prime age. He could stay there and enjoy life as many Pakistanis do. But, Dr Khan was very clear in his motives from day one and that was he would return and serve his homeland,” he noted.

    He said that one of the lessons that the nation could draw from Dr Khan’s life was to build a knowledge-based society.

    “Without establishing a knowledge-based society, we cannot get internation