Mohammad Hameedullah Khan is a Pakistani mathematician and cosmologist born in 1946 in British India. He received his PhD in 1971 from the University of London, specializing in mathematical physics and the theory of relativity under Roger Penrose. Throughout his career, Khan has held prominent positions including chairman of the mathematics department at Quaid-i-Azam University and director of the Mathematical Physics Group at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, where he contributed to Pakistan's nuclear program. Khan has received several prestigious awards and honors for his contributions to mathematics and physics.

1. Presented by

2. Biography-1
• He is a Pakistani mathematician and a prominent cosmologist, specialized
in mathematical physics and physical cosmology.
• He was born in 23 July 1946 (age 73) Shimla, British Indian Empire (present-
day Himachal Pradesh, India)
Residence Rawalpindi, Punjab province
Nationality Pakistani
Citizenship Pakistan
PhD 1971
Doctoral Advisor Roger Penrose
• He is the chairman of the Mathematics Department, and the director of School
of Natural Sciences (SNS) at the National University of Sciences and
Technology (NUST).[2][3]

3. Biography-2
• He was born in Simla (now Shimla) of British Indian Empire in 1946 to a
middle-class family. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, Qadir's
family migrated to Lahore, West Pakistan, where they were settled in a
house provided by the Government of Pakistan. In 1963, Qadir travelled to
United Kingdom on a Commonwealth scholarship which he applied and
qualified for. In 1963, Qadir attended the University of London and
received his BSc(Hons) in Mathematics from the University of London in
1967 under the direction of mathematician Professor Oliver Penrose.
• The same year,he obtained his BS in Physics and DIC in Mathematics. In
1969, Qadir pursued his MSc in Mathematics, followed by PhD in
Mathematical physics and Theory of relativity with the specialisation
in Twistor theory, under the supervision of Roger Penrose in 1971. He
pioneered the mathematical contributions to the development of Special
relativity and the twistor theory, which is the approach to the problems of
fundamental physics pioneered by Roger Penrose.

4. Fields and Known for
► His field is Mathematics.
► His work on the mathematical sciences, relativity, general
relativity, introduction to general relativity, cosmology
Books.
1.1989
2. 2007

5. • In 1976, Qadir joined Quaid-e-Azam University's Department of Mathematics as an
associate professor.[4] In 1983, Qadir became chairman of the Department of Mathematics
at the Quaid-i-Azam University.[4] In 1986, Riazuddin invited Qadir to Trieste, Italy to
join International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) where he carried out his research
in special and general theory of relativity. At ICTP, he taught the advanced course of
differential equations, Special functions, Upper and lower bounds on Entropy and the
Number Theory.
Quaid-e-Azam
University.

6. Ghulam Ishaq Khan (President of Pakistan)
• In 1993, he was asked by the President, Ghulam Ishaq Khan (late), to
teach in the newly founded research institute at Topi, Ghulam Ishaq
Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology. In 1994, he
went to Saudi Arabia where he visited his lifelong
friend Riazuddin where, on his friend's recommendation, joined King
Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals where he served as a
chairman of Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
• In 1998, Qadir came back to Pakistan and re-joined Quaid-e-Azam
University as an associate professor of mathematics. The same year,
Qadir joined the PAEC and became director-general of the
Mathematical Physics Group where he was an instrumental for leading
the mathematical studies in the foundation of mathematical
physics. Qadir became involved in a team preparing the nuclear device
in Chagai and eye-witnessed the country's first nuclear tests
• where he was the director of the team leading the mathematical
calculations to determine the yield

7. Awards and honors
• Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Government of Pakistan (2008)
• Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Government of Pakistan (1999)
• Gold Medal, Pakistan Academy of Sciences (1996)
• Khwarizmi First Prize, by Government of Iran (1995)
• Prize, National Book Council of Pakistan, (1991)
• Senior Fulbright Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin,
Texas, USA, (1987)
• Fulbright Hayes Award (1979)
• First prize in General Knowledge Contest for High School
Students (1961);
• ISESCO Award for Mathematics (2003)

8. Fellowships and memberships[edit]
• Senior research fellow at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE),
from 1980 to 1994
• Joint secretary at Al-Kindi Society for the Advancement of the Philosophy of
Science, Islamabad, Pakistan, (1980)
• Associate member and senior associate of the International Centre for
Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 1980–1999
• Life member and vice-president, Albert Einstein Society (Pakistan Chapter)
(1985 to date)
• Life member, joint secretary and secretary, Pakistan Physical Society. (1992
and 1993)
• Life member and president, Fulbright Alumni Association, (1992–1993)