Background
Beg, Mirza Abdul Baqi was born on September 20, 1934 in Etawah, India. Son of Mirza Abdul Hai and Sarah (Khan) Beg.
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Mirza Abdul Baqi Beg
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Bachelor of Science with honours D.J.S., Government Science College, Karachi, Pakistan, 1951; Master of Science, Karachi U., 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, University Pittsburgh, 1958.
Career
Research fellow, U. Birmingham, England, 1958-1960;
research associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1960-1962;
consultant, Brookhaven National Laboratory, from 1965;
member high energy advising committee, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1975-1978;
member, Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, 1962-1964;
member of faculty, Rockefeller U., 1964-1990;
professor physics, Rockefeller U., 1968-1990. Visiting positions at University of California-Berkeley, Argonne National Laboratory, Niels Bohr Institute, U. Washington, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, Stanford University, University of California at Los Angeles, Centro de Investigacion del Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico. Senior visiting scientist European Center for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland, 1972.
Trustee Aspen Center Physics, 1981-1987, member of advisory board, from 1987.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American Physical Society, New York Academy Sciences.
Connections
Married Nancie Stager Kress, November 7, 1958.
