Ghulam Dastagir Alam

Ghulam Dastagir Alam Qasmi (Urdu: غلام دستگیر عالم قاسمی; popularly known as G.D. Alam; PhD, HI), was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and professor of mathematics at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Alam is best known for conceiving and embarking on research on the gas centrifuge during Pakistan's integrated atomic bomb project in the 1970s, and he also conceived the research on charge density, nuclear fission, and gamma-ray bursts throughout his career.

Ghulam Dastagir Alam Qasmi
Dr. G.D Alam (right)
Born1937
Faridabad, Punjab, British India
(Present-day in Haryana in India)
Died5 December 2000
Nilore, ICT
NationalityPakistan
CitizenshipPakistan
Alma materGovernment College University
Punjab University
University College London
Known for
  • Ultracentrifuge development
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Ion Scattering
  • Published work in Calculus, Fortran and abstract algebra
Awards Hilal-e-Imtiaz (1983)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
Institutions
Theses
Doctoral advisorJ. B. Hasted
Other academic advisors

After the atomic bomb project, Alam joined the Department of Mathematics at the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) as well as serving as visiting faculty at the Institute of Physics, and co-authored papers on variation calculus and fission isomer. He was one of the notable theoretical physicists at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and QAU. At one point, his fellow theorist, Munir Ahmad Khan, called Alam "the problem solving brain of the PAEC".:155

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