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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 2,589,398 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Abdul Qadeer Khan is the 262nd most popular physicist (up from 335th in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from India (up from 165th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Abdul Qadeer Khan ranks 262 out of 717. Before him are Daniel Rutherford, Osborne Reynolds, Anthony James Leggett, John Cockcroft, Moshé Feldenkrais, and Rainer Weiss. After him are John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Philip Warren Anderson, Hugh David Politzer, Jack Steinberger, Henry Way Kendall, and Joseph Swan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Abdul Qadeer Khan ranks 57. Before him are Anna German, Choummaly Sayasone, Günter Blobel, Denny Hulme, Bruce Dern, and Alan J. Heeger. After him are Eric Walter Elst, Assia Djebar, Dražan Jerković, Jean M. Auel, Héctor Elizondo, and Jill Ireland. Among people deceased in 2021, Abdul Qadeer Khan ranks 80. Before him are Nelson Freire, Richard Donner, Ei-ichi Negishi, János Kornai, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, and Joan Didion. After him are Ed Asner, Robert H. Grubbs, Borisav Jović, Bertrand Tavernier, Kim Yong-ju, and Antony Hewish.

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In India

Among people born in India, Abdul Qadeer Khan ranks 125 out of 1,493. Before him are Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), Sushruta (-620), Bharata Muni (-1000), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), and Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899). After him are Buddhaghosa (401), Mangal Pandey (1827), Vidyapati (1352), Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), and Dayananda Saraswati (1824).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Abdul Qadeer Khan ranks 3. Before him are C. V. Raman (1888) and Satyendra Nath Bose (1894). After him are Anna Mani (1918), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Tom Kibble (1932), Raja Ramanna (1925), Narinder Singh Kapany (1926), and Abhay Ashtekar (1949).

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