Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani physicist
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Abdul Qadeer Khan, NI, HI, FPAS, known as A. Q. Khan, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer who is colloquially known as the "father of Pakistan's atomic weapons program". Wikipedia
Born: April 27, 1936, Bhopal, India
Died: October 10, 2021 (age 85 years), KRL Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan
Children: 2
Known for: Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, gaseous diffusion, martensite and graphene morphology
Parents: Zulekha Begum and Abdul Ghafoor Khan
Doctoral advisor: Martin J. Brabers