Kamaluddin Ahmed

Kamaluddin Ahmed (15 April 1939 – 10 June 2014), FPAS, was a Pakistani particle physicist and a professor of physics at the Quaid-e-Azam University.

Early life and career Kamaluddin Ahmed was born in Delhi, British India in 1939. Beginning in 1966, he studied at the University of London under Abdus Salam and Paul Taunton Matthews. He served as an advisor in the Physics department at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology from 2002 to 2013. and in 1979 and 1983 was invited to suggest nominations for the Nobel Prize in Physics. He also served as a senior research associate member with the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics beginning in 1991, and as president of the Pakistan Physics Society.

Awards and recognition Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan in 2001.

Death and legacy Ahmed died of hepatitis on 10 June 2014, while visiting relatives in the United States. A conference was held in his honor at the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology on 27 June 2014 to pay tribute to him. The event was attended by many physicists and members of the scientific community.