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Abdul Qadeer Khan

1936 - 2021

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Abdul Qadeer Khan, ( AHB-dəl KAH-deer KAHN; Urdu: عبد القدیر خان; 1 April 1936 – 10 October 2021), 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". An émigré (Muhajir) from India who migrated to Pakistan in 1952, Khan was educated in the metallurgical engineering departments of Western European technical universities where he pioneered studies in phase transitions of metallic alloys, uranium metallurgy, and isotope separation based on gas centrifuges. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdul Qadeer Khan has received more than 2,741,788 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Abdul Qadeer Khan is the 305th most popular physicist (down from 262nd in 2019), the 161st most popular biography from India (down from 124th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Abdul Qadeer Khan ranks 305 out of 851. Before him are George Smoot, William Daniel Phillips, Freeman Dyson, Andre Geim, Giorgio Parisi, and Jack Steinberger. After him are Hélène Langevin-Joliot, David Gross, Ratko Janev, Paul-Jacques Curie, Moshé Feldenkrais, and James Jeans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Abdul Qadeer Khan ranks 75. Before him are Hideki Shirakawa, Engelbert Humperdinck, Yury Luzhkov, Joe D'Amato, Iolanda Balaș, and Bruce Dern. After him are Duncan Edwards, Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, Margaret Hamilton, Ljubiša Samardžić, Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, and Jacques Charrier. Among people deceased in 2021, Abdul Qadeer Khan ranks 73. Before him are Hal Holbrook, Lina Wertmüller, Jean-Luc Nancy, Pat Hitchcock, John McAfee, and Kentaro Miura. After him are Tamara Press, Larry Flynt, Milva, Mamnoon Hussain, Walter Mondale, and Hannu Mikkola.

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In India

Among people born in India, Abdul Qadeer Khan ranks 161 out of 1,861. Before him are Pratibha Patil (1934), Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820), Ravidas (1450), Mangal Pandey (1827), and Mahesh Bhatt (1948). After him are Zakir Husain (1897), Jyotirao Phule (1827), Madhvacharya (1199), Vikramaditya (-102), Birsa Munda (1875), and Mamnoon Hussain (1940).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Abdul Qadeer Khan ranks 4. Before him are C. V. Raman (1888), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), and Anna Mani (1918). After him are Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Tom Kibble (1932), Raja Ramanna (1925), Daulat Singh Kothari (1906), and Abhay Ashtekar (1949).

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