| Book Name | Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan |
| Author | Syed Asim Mehmood |
| Publish Year | itemprop="datePublished" content="2013-01-01"2013 |
| Publisher | NA |
| Language | Urdu |
| Genre | Bigraphy |
| ISBN | NA |
| Download | Link |
Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan Review:
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan is the undisputed hero of Pakistan's nuclear saga. Called "the father of the Islamic bomb," Dr. Khan pioneered and led Pakistan's effort to enrich uranium with gas centrifuges. In 1976 he took charge of the secretive Engineering Research Laboratories at Kahuta, now named the A.Q. Khan Research Laboratories in his honor, where he assembled the machinery and manpower it would take to produce weapon-grade uranium. Khan recruited scores of Pakistani scientists living abroad to work with him at Kahuta, boasting that "the scientists and engineers whom I recruited had never heard of a centrifuge, even though some of them were Ph.D.'s."Khan was born in 1936 in Bhopal, British India, into an Urdu-speaking family who were originally ethnic Pashtun. His mother, Zulekha (née Begum), a housewife; his father, Abdul Ghafoor was an alumnus of Nagpur University and an academic who served in the British Indian Education ministry who permanently settled the family in Bhopal State after his retirement in 1935. After the violent partition of India in 1947, his family emigrated from India to Pakistan in 1952, and settled in Karachi, Sindh. Briefly attending the D.J. Science College, he enrolled in Karachi University in 1956 to study physics. In 1960, he graduated with degree in physics with minor in mathematics, where his degree concentration was in solid-state physics.
For a short time, Khan worked for the city government as an inspector of weights and measures. In 1961, he went to Germany to study metallurgy at the Technical University in Berlin (TU Berlin) but made a transfer to Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands in 1965. At Delft, he obtained engineer's degree in technology (an equivalent to MS) in 1967 and joined the Catholic University of Leuven for his doctoral studies. Supervised by Dr. Martin Brabers at Leuven University, Khan received D.Eng. in metallurgical engineering in 1972. His doctoral thesis dealt and contained fundamental work on martensite, and its extended industrial applications to the field of morphology— a field that studies the shape, size, texture and phase distribution of physical objects.
