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Abdul Qadeer Khan
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Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936–2021)
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Abdul Qadeer Khan was a male physicist, engineer, academic, and metallurgist born in Bhopal in 1936. He held citizenship in the British Raj, the Dominion of India, India, and Pakistan. His professional work spanned physics, nuclear physics, and metallurgy. He was employed by Delft University of Technology, the Urenco Group, and Khan Research Laboratories.
Khan received the Hilal-i-Imtiaz, the Grand Cross of the Order of Excellence, and the Sitara-i-Imtiaz. He was educated at Delft University of Technology, the University of Karachi, UCLouvain, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He spoke Urdu and English, with Urdu as his native language, and followed Islam. He had two children.
He died of COVID-19 due to natural causes in Islamabad on October 10, 2021. He was buried at the Faisal Mosque. His name in his native language is عَبْد الْقَدِير خان.
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- Works
- 1
Top works
- Wireless Networks Information Processing and Systems
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Film & TV
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Known for
- Zero Days — Self (archive footage)2016
- Frontline/World — Self2002
- Zembla1995
- Modern Marvels — Self (archive footage)1993
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Key facts
- President
- Pervez Musharraf
- Preceded by
- Ishfaq Ahmad
- Succeeded by
- Atta-ur-Rahman
- Born
- ( 1936-04-01 ) 1 April 1936, Bhopal , Bhopal State , British India
- Died
- 10 October 2021 (2021-10-10) (aged 85), Islamabad , Pakistan
- Resting place
- Islamabad Graveyard H-8, Islamabad 33°41′11.7″N 73°3′52.5″E / 33.686583°N 73.064583°E / 33.686583; 73.064583
- Party
- Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Pakistan , (2012–2013)
- Spouse
- Hendrina Reterink ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1963 )
- Alma mater
- University of Karachi , Delft University of Technology , Catholic University of Louvain , D. J. Sindh Government Science College
- Known for
- Pakistan's nuclear weapons program , gaseous diffusion , martensite and graphene morphology
- Awards
- Nishan-i-Imtiaz (1996; 1999), Hilal-i-Imtiaz (1989)
- Website
- draqkhan.com.pk (archived)
- Fields
- Metallurgical engineering
- Institutions
- Khan Research Laboratories , GIK Institute of Technology , Hamdard University , Urenco Group
- Thesis
- The effect of morphology on the strength of copper-based martensites (1972)
- Doctoral advisor
- Martin J. Brabers
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Khan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Pakistan
- Place of birth
- Bhopal
- Place of death
- Islamabad
- Occupation
- scientist
- Educated at
- UCLouvain
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Urdu
- Religion
- Islam
- Field of work
- metallurgy
- Official website
- web.archive.org/web/20190710023836/http://www.draqkhan.com.pk
- Image
- Abdul Qadeer Khan.jpg
- Height
- 1.98
- Number of children
- 2
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- date of birth
- 1936-04-01
- name in native language
- عَبْد الْقَدِير خان
- Commons category
- Abdul Qadeer Khan
- short name
- AQK
- date of death
- 2021-10-10
- place of burial
- Faisal Mosque
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- COVID-19
- described at URL
- web.archive.org/web
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Encyclopedic overview
Abdul Qadeer Khan NI & BAR, HI, FPAS (1 April 1936 – 10 October 2021) was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer. He is colloquially known as the "father of Pakistan's atomic weapons program".
A Muhajir emigrant 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 many years.
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