Anwar Ali (physicist)

Anwar Ali
Born1943 (age 80–81)
Hoshiarpur, Punjab, British Indian Empire
(Present-day in Hoshiarpur, Punjab in India)
CitizenshipPakistan
Alma materGovernment College University
University of Punjab
University of Birmingham
Known forPakistan's nuclear deterrent program
Computational science, automatic controls, and computer programming
Awards Nishan-i-Imtiaz (2015)
Pride of Performance (2003)
Hilal-i-Imtiaz (1999)
Scientific career
FieldsComputational physics
InstitutionsPakistan Atomic Energy Commission

Anwar Ali (born 1943, NI, HI, PP, MSc), is a Pakistani physicist and a computer programmer, who served as the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 2006 until 2009.: 431 [1] His scientific career is spent at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission as a computational physicist and played a key scientific role his nation's secret nuclear deterrent program.[2]

  1. ^ Khan, Feroz (2012). "(§ Secret Nuclear R&D Programs)". Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb (googlebooks) (1st ed.). Stanford, CA, USA: Stanford University Press. p. 400. ISBN 978-0-8047-8480-1. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
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