Tahir Hussain

Tahir Hussain (1923– 21 December 2010), was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and an emeritus professor of physics at the Government College University whose research was engaged in understanding the particle accelerator. He did his graduation in physics from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), and earned MSc in physics with honours. At the invitation of the Governor-General of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah in 1948, he emigrated to Pakistan along with Dr. R.M. Chaudhry, accepting a teaching position as laboratory lecturer at the Government College University in Lahore at the behest of R.M. Chaudhry.

On a scholarship, Hussain went to the United Kingdom to attend Oxford University where he was conferred with a DPhil in Nuclear physics in 1954. Upon returning, he taught courses on solid-state physics in 1955, and took over the chairmanship of the department of physics at the Government College University in 1962.

In the 1950s–60s, he visited the United States as a post-doctoral fellow at the State University of New York, University of Chicago, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as well as visiting Harvard University and Stanford University in California.

Throughout his career, Hussain remained on the teaching faculty at the Government College University, and wrote a college physics book, Fundamentals of Physics in 1970, which has been published in new editions since. Tahir Hussain died on 21 December 2010 aged 87. A condolence reference for Hussain, was organized in Government College University in Lahore.

Textbooks

Quotes "From the theory that I taught, my students produced results".

Awards Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (1965)

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