Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Pakistani-American experimental physicist
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Place of Birth: Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
About Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz
- Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz, Ph.D.
- (Urdu: ???? ???? ???? ?; June 12, 1937— July 9, 1992), was a Pakistani-American experimental physicist noted for his role in discovering new isotopes that expanded the neutron-deficient side of the atomic chart.
- Some of the isotopes he discovered enabled significant advances in medical research, particularly in the treatment of cancer, and further advanced the experimental understanding of nuclear structures.
- Ijaz conducted his research work at Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL).
- He and his ORNL colleagues published more than 60 papers in physics journals announcing isotope discoveries and other results of their accelerator experiments from 1968 until 1983.Ijaz participated in the U.S.
- Atoms for Peace initiative during the 1970s.
- The program provided a number of third-world countries, including Pakistan, with civilian nuclear reactor technology to develop energy for peaceful purposes.
- As a tenured professor of Physics at Virginia Tech, he acted as thesis adviser to graduate students from around the world in experimental physics disciplines.
- Ijaz made extensive trips abroad during his career, including sabbaticals as a visiting professor at Saudi Arabia's King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.
- in the early 1980s and as a visiting faculty member at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy in 1985.
- He retired Professor Emeritus of Physics from Virginia Tech in December 1991 after a 27-year career in teaching and research.
- Ijaz and his wife emigrated to the United States and settled in Virginia, where they had five children.
- He died in 1992 after a battle with cancer.
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