Tahir Hussain was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and an emeritus professor of nuclear physics at the Government College University whose research was engaged in Long-lived fission product and Electrostatic nuclear accelerators.
Education
Born in Aligarh, Hussain received his education from Aligarh University where he received his Bachelor (Bachelor of Science) and Master"s degree (Master of Science ) with distinction in physics from there. At first he taught physics at Government College, Lahore, and after some time, proceeded to Oxford University and did Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Physics in 1954. After his Doctor of Philosophy, he came back to Pakistan where he joined Government College University.
Career
Not to be confused with director and actor Tahir Hussain. As an eminent educator and scientist, he has mentored noted Pakistani physicists at the Government College University and is considered one of the noted physicist in his country. After the Partition of India, he declined the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru"s offer to join Physics Laboratories of India.
In 1954, he along with doctor
R. M. Chaudhry founded the "Center Foreign Advance Studies in Physics (CASP). In 1964, he was elevated as the Head of the Physics Department whereas, in 1965, he became a director of Center Foreign Advance Studies in Physics (CASP).
In 1965, after the retirement of doctor Royal Marines Chaudhry, he subsequently became a head of High Tension Laboratory and continued the research and work of his mentor.
In 1968, while at the Doctor Tahir Hussain was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Azad Kashmir University, Muzaffarabad.
Thereafter, he was appointed Chairman of Literacy and Mass Education for some time. Doctor Tahir was associated with the Ministry of Education of Pakistan as Consultant for Science and also worked as chairman, United States of America Education Foundation. He has published a number of research papers in journals of international repute.
Doctor Tahir Hussain has contributed in the foundation and development of the first Nuclear Research Laboratory.
In the High Tension Laboratory, scientists like Doctor Samar Mubarakmand, Doctor Ishfaq Ahmad, Doctor Mansoor and others worked under his supervision. He also had supervised the undergraduate and post graduate education of renowned nuclear scientist and physicist doctor
Ishfaq Ahmad. After the retirement of his mentor, Hussain became a director of High Tension Laboratory (HTL) in 1965.
He continued his research in Electrostatic nuclear accelerators and, also trained a number of young Pakistani scientists in the field of nuclear technology. In 1972, he was delegated by his student Doctor Ishfaq Ahmad to participate in Kahuta Project.
As a senior scientist at PAEC, he began in research in Electrostatic nuclear accelerators. He served as senior research scientist at the PARR-Reactor, and was significantly involved in mass calculations in isotopic radiation and ionization nuclear and atomic energy.
Later, he focused his research in Long-lived fission products where he published investigative papers in peer journals.
He also performed an experiment on 93Zr, an element that produced at a relatively high yield of about 6% but its decay is 7.5 time slower than 99Tc. In 1977, Hussain then joined Centre for Solid State Physics, University of the Punjab. In 1983, he then rejoined his alma mater as a professor emeritus of nuclear physics in 1977.
"From the theory that I taught, my students produced results".
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"From the theory that I taught, my students produced results".