Background
Iqbal, Zafar was born on August 24, 1941 in Calcutta, Bengal, India. Son of Abdul and Fatima Motalib.
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Zafar Iqbal
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Zafar Iqbal, American Physicist. Achievements include high temperature superconductor technical patents and discovery of new high temperature copper oxide and carbon superconductor, structure of polymer superconductor bromine poly sulphur nitride, process to fabricate nanocrystalline silicon, mechanisms of structural phase transitions in key materials. Member American Physical Society, Materials Research Society.
Education
Bachelor of Science, U. Dacca, East Pakistan, 1960; Master of Science, U. Dacca, East Pakistan, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, U. Cambridge, England, 1967.
Career
Research fellow, U. Warwick, Coventry, England, 1967-1968;
staff physicist, Army Research and Development Center, Dover, New Jersey, 1969-1979;
guest research professor, Swiss Federal Institute Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, 1979-1983;
senior research fellow, U. Zurich, 1979;
senior research physicist, Allied Signal Corporation, Morristown, New Jersey, 1983-1991;
research scientist, project leader, Allied Signal Corporation, Morristown, since 1992. Advisor National Research Council Postdoctoral Program, Washington, 1973-1977. Reviewer National Science Foundation, Washington, since 1985.
Edit board Condensed Matter and Materials Commun, New York, since 1992.
Achievements
Membership
Member American Physical Society, Materials Research Society.
Connections
Married Lolita Navarro, May 23, 1989.
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Nationality
American
Awards
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Recipient Paul A. Sipple medal Army Science Conference, 1971, Individual Achievement award Allied Signal, 1991. Alexander von Humboldt fellow, 1978, Research grantee Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1991-1992.Recipient Paul A. Sipple medal Army Science Conference, 1971, Individual Achievement award Allied Signal, 1991. Alexander von Humboldt fellow, 1978, Research grantee Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1991-1992.