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Abdul Qadeer Khan, NI, HI, FPAS (/ ˈ ɑː b d əl ˈ k ɑː d ɪər ˈ k ɑː n / ⓘ 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".
The Dr. A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories (shortened as KRL), [2] is a federally funded research and development laboratory located in Kahuta at a short distance from Rawalpindi in Punjab, Pakistan. Established in 1976, the laboratory is best known for its central role in Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and its understanding the nuclear science.
Dr. A. Q. Khan Institute of Computer Sciences and Information Technology commonly known as KICSIT is a sub-campus of Institute of Space Technology located in Kahuta, Rawalpindi, Punjab.Dr. A. Q. Khan Institute of Computer Sciences and Information Technology (KICSIT), Kahuta was inaugurated in November 2000 by Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder and then Chairman of KRL.
Abdul Qadeer Khan (metallurgist and founder of Pakistan's Nuclear Programme) [6] [7] [8] Ahmed Mohiuddin (zoologist) Abdul Hameed Nayyar (nuclear physicist) Atta-ur-Rahman (chemist) Faheem Hussain (theoretical physicist) Hafeez Hoorani (particle physicist) Muhammad Hafeez Qureshi (nuclear physicist) Pervez Hoodbhoy (nuclear physicist)
According to Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's nuclear safety program and nuclear security program is the strongest program in the world and there is no such capability in any other country for radical elements to steal or possess nuclear weapons. [81]
The GIK Institute is a private educational institution, named after former bureaucrat and former President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan. The project was delegated to Pakistani scientist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who was one of the founding members of the institute and was once registered as an associate professor of physics. [6]
Abdul Qadeer Khan – scientist and metallurgical engineer, widely regarded as the founder of the uranium program of the country's atomic bomb projects Makhdoom Ali Khan – former Attorney General of Pakistan
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan's UF 6 gas centrifuges. Natural uranium consists of only 99.3% 238 U and only 0.7% 235 U, but only the latter is fissile. The rarer but chemically identical 235 U must be physically separated from the more plentiful isotope. This process of uranium enrichment into weapon-grade is extremely difficult and sensitive, and ...