Background
Akhtar, Muhammad was born on February 23, 1933 in Batala, Punjab, India. Son of Muhammad Azeem Chaudhry.
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Muhammad Akhtar
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Muhammad Akhtar, British education educator, educator. Recipient Master of Science Gold Medalist, University Punjab, Pakistan, 1954, Sitara-I-Imtiaz, Government of Pakistan, 1981, Flintoff medal Royal Society Chemistry, 1993; TWAS medal lecturer, 1996; grantee SERC, Medical Research Council, Wellcome. Fellow Royal Society, Third World Academy of Sciences (founding fellow, treasurer, member council 1992-1998, vice president since 1998).
Education
Master of Science, Punjab University, Pakistan, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, Imperial College, London, 1959. Doctor of Science (honorary), Karachi University.
Career
He spent the years 1959 to 1963 doing science research in Cambridge, Massachusetts before moving to the University of Southampton, United Kingdom as a lecturer, then reader and then Professor of Biochemistry (1973-1978). From 1978 until 1991 he was head of the Department of Biochemistry. He was chairman of the School of Biochemical and Physiological Sciences from 1983 to 1987 and chairman of the Institute of Biomolecular Sciences from 1989 to 1991.
He was a founding fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1984 and a director of the SERC Centre for Molecular Recognition from 1990-1994.
He was appointed Director General of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan in 2002. He is also an emeritus professor of the University of Southampton.
He is also an honorary fellow at the University College London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow Royal Society, Third World Academy of Sciences (founding fellow, treasurer, member council 1992-1998, vice president since 1998).
Connections
Married Monika E. Schurmann, August 3, 1963. Children: Marcus Imran, Daniel Azeem.
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Nationality
British/Pakistani
Education
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1954
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1959
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Awards
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Recipient Master of Science Gold Medalist, University Punjab, Pakistan, 1954, Sitara-I-Imtiaz, Government of Pakistan, 1981, Flintoff medal Royal Society Chemistry, 1993. TWAS medal lecturer, 1996. Grantee SERC, Medical Research Council, Wellcome.Recipient Master of Science Gold Medalist, University Punjab, Pakistan, 1954, Sitara-I-Imtiaz, Government of Pakistan, 1981, Flintoff medal Royal Society Chemistry, 1993. TWAS medal lecturer, 1996. Grantee SERC, Medical Research Council, Wellcome.