Prof. Riazuddin, the founder Director General of NCP, passed away on the night of September 9, 2013. Prof. Riazuddin was an eminent Pakistani particle physicist, who played a pioneering role in the establishment of many research institutes in Pakistan, including the National Centre for Physics (NCP). Before becoming the founder Director General of NCP, Prof. Riazuddin held several senior positions in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and visiting positions in USA.
Prof. Riazuddin published more that 165 scholarly research papers in leading journals of physics, covering all the three main branches of particle physics; weak, electromagnetic and strong interactions.
Prof. Riazuddin co-authored three books, one on the “Theory of Weak Interaction in Particle Physics” published by John Wiley in 1969 and is regarded as a classic on the subject, the second is a text book on Quantum Mechanics, while the third book “A Modern Introduction to Particle Physics” is now a standard text in Physics and is used as course text in many prestigious universities. He was a co-author of “Selected Papers of Abdus Salam (with commentary)” published by World Scientific, 1994.
Prof. Riazuddin won many national and international awards, including:
- UNESCO Albert Einstein Gold Medal for Fundamental Science, 2000.
Prof. Riazuddin was a fellow of:
- Pakistan Academy of Sciences, 1975
- Third World Academy of Sciences, 1994
- Islamic Academy of Sciences, 2001
- American Physical Society, 2005
