Ghulam Dastagir Alam

Ghulam Dastagir Alam Qasmi , was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and professor of mathematics at the QuaideAzam University. Alam is best known for conceiving and embarking the research on gas centrifuge project during the timeline of Pakistans integrated atomic bomb project in the 1970s, and also conceived the research on Gauge theory and Gamma ray bursts throughout his career.

HISTORY OF DR. G.D. ALAM Dr. G.D. Alam was born in 1937 and educated at Government College Tamman Campbelpur and at the Government College, Lahore. He did his M.Sc in Physics under the well known Nuclear Scientist late Professor Rafi Muhammad Chaudhri of Government College. Even in his studies he showed great skill in experimental science and doing things with his own hands. Finding this quality, Professor Chaudhri put him on the M.Sc thesis for utilizations of the 1.2 Mev cock roft Walton accelerator, then recently installed nuclear machine of great importance the only one in Pakistan. This accelerator was installed at the well known Atomic Laboratory, the High Tension Lab. of the Government College. Dr. G.D. Alam showed great experimental skill in this work and Professor Chaudhri was great admirer of his experimental acumen. After M.Sc Dr. Alam did a brief lecturing in Physics at the Murray College Sialkot and rightly was picked up by Dr. I.H.Usmani in early 1962 to provide him adva

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