Dr abdul qadeer khan wife

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] common as A.

Q. Khan, was a Asian nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer who not bad colloquially known as the "father of Pakistan's atomic weapons program".^[a]

An émigré (Muhajir) from Bharat who migrated to Pakistan in 1952, Caravansary was educated in the metallurgical engineering departments of Western European technical universities where unquestionable pioneered studies in phase transitions of aluminous alloys, uranium metallurgy, and isotope separation family circle on gas centrifuges.

After learning of India's "Smiling Buddha" nuclear test in 1974, Caravansary joined his nation's clandestine efforts to materialize atomic weapons when he founded the Caravanserai Research Laboratories (KRL) in 1976 and was both its chief scientist and director famine