Abdul Qadeer Khan, NI, HI, FPAS i/ˌɑːbˈdʊl kɑːdɪər kɑːn/, and known widely as A. Q. Khan, is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and a metallurgical engineer, who founded the uranium enrichment program for Pakistan's atomic bomb project. Khan founded and established the Kahuta Research Laboratoriesin 1976, serving as both its senior scientist and Director-General until he retired in 2001. Khan was also an early and vital figure in other Pakistani national science projects, making major research contributions to molecular morphology, the...
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