For the computer science professor, see Ishfaq Ahmad (computer scientist). For the Indian football player, see Ishfaq Ahmed. For the Pakistani writer and novelist, see Ashfaq Ahmed.
Ishfaq Ahmad Khan
Ishfaq Ahmad (1930–2018) c. 1990s
Born
(1930-11-03)3 November 1930
Gurdaspur, Gurdaspur district, Punjab, British India (Present-day, Gurdaspur, Punjab, India)
Died
18 January 2018(2018-01-18) (aged 87)
Islamabad, Pakistan
Nationality
Indian (1930–1947) Pakistani (1947–2018)
Alma mater
Université de Montréal
University of Punjab
Known for
Nuclear Deterrence
Contribution to Pion and particle physics
Stellar nucleosynthesis
Awards
Nishan-i-Imitiaz (1998)
Hilal-i-Imtiaz (1995)
Sitara-i-Imtiaz (1989)
Scientific career
Fields
Nuclear physics
Institutions
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission
Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology
International Atomic Energy Agency
Government College University
National Centre for Physics
Planning Commission
Thesis
Structure et identification des trajectoires dans les emulsions ionographiques à grain fin(1959)
Doctoral advisor
Pierre Demers
Other academic advisors
R.M. Chaudhry
Notable students
Samar Mubarakmand
Ishfaq Ahmad Khan (3 November 1930 – 18 January 2018) SI, HI, NI, FPAS, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist, emeritus professor of high-energy physics at the National Centre for Physics, and former science advisor to the Government of Pakistan.[1]
A versatile theoretical physicist,[2] Ahmad made significant contributions in the theoretical development of the applications and concepts involving the particle physics, and its relative extension to the quantum electrodynamics, while working as senior research scientist at the CERN in the 1960s and 1970s. Joining the PAEC in the late 1950s, Ahmad served as the director of the Nuclear Physics Division at the secret Pinstech Institute which developed the first designs of atomic bombs, a clandestine project during the post-1971 war.[3] There, he played an influential role in leading the physics and mathematical calculations in the critical mass of the weapons, and did theoretical work on the implosion method used in the weapons.[4]
Since the 1960s and onwards, he was a high-ranking official at the IAEA as part of the Pakistan Government's official mission, working to make the peaceful use of nuclear power for the industrial development. Having chaired the PAEC from 1991 until 2001, he was affiliated with the Pakistan Government as a science adviser to the prime minister on strategic and scientific programs, with the status of Minister of State. A vehement supporter for the peaceful use of nuclear energy, he earned public and international fame in May 1998 when he oversaw and directed PAEC to perform country's first public atomic tests (see Chagai-I and Chagai-II) in a secret weapon-testing laboratories in Balochistan Province of Pakistan.[5] He died on 18 January 2018, aged 87 in Lahore.[6][7]
^"Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad (N.I, H.I, S.I) Advisor S&T / Minister of State". Government of Pakistan. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
^Shabbir, Usman. "Munir Ahmad Khan and PAEC's other achievements". The Multan Conference, 20 Jan 1972: The day the bomb was born. Islamabad, Pakistan: Usman Shabbir published as cover story in Defence Journal (May 2004 issue). p. 1. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2012. Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad (a theoretical physicist) and others involved in critical technologies and projects worked as a team, and gave ultimate security to Pakistan... Quoted by: Pakistan Defence Journal, 2004
^(Rehman 1999, pp. 71–72)
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^"Famed nuclear scientist Ishfaq Ahmed passes away". Samaa TV. 19 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
^"Renowned nuclear scientist 'Dr Ishfaq Ahmad' laid to the rest". Business Plus. 21 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
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