August is here and we’ll be celebrating Independence Day soon InshaAllah!! 
Let’s be appreciative and talk about all the achievements Pakistan and Pakistanis have made in the field of Science. And there are a lot of things to talk about from prominent scientists to research institutions in Pakistan. You can also talk about notable achievements that you know of but they haven’t made the news yet…so let’s just get started!! 
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I’ll start :sadiyah:
Dr Yusuf Zafar, who is the director general agriculture and biotechnology at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission was declared ‘Scientist of the Year-2012’ for his pioneering work in the cotton biotechnology sector.
Such an accomplishment!!
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Mohammad Abdus Salam,29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996)was a Pakistani Muslim theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces. Salam holds the distinction of being the first Pakistani and the first Muslim to receive a Nobel prize in Physics.
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Abdus Salam as per my information is not a muslim
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Salimuzzaman Siddiqui 19 October 1897 - 14 April 1994), HI, MBE, SI, D.Phil., FPAS, FRS. was a leading Pakistani scientist in Natural Product Chemistry. He is credited for pioneering the isolation of unique chemical compounds from the Neem (Azadirachta indica), Rauwolfia, and various other flora. As the founder director of H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, he revolutionised the research on pharmacology of various domestic plants found in South Asia to extract novel chemical substances of medicinal importance. In addition to his scientific talents, Siddiqui was also an avid painter, a poet, and a great connoisseur of music. His paintings were exhibited in Germany, India, and Pakistan.
Link
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Abdus Salam as per my information is not a muslim
Well as long as he's Pakistani it's all good for this thread.
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Abdus Salam as per my information is not a muslim
we are discussing pakistan not muslims n non muslims
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Mujahid Kamran — winner of Einstein Award (2001) for the leading research in quantum mechanics.
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Dr. Naweed Syed, a specialist in the field of biomedical engineering and member of the medicine faculty at the University of Calgary, became the first scientist who managed to “connect brain cells to a silicon chip”. The discovery is a major step in the research of integrating computers with human brains to help people control artificial limbs, monitor people’s vital signs, correct memory loss or impaired vision.
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Development of the SMB probe to detect heavy water leaks in nuclear power plants by Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood[SUP].
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ommaya reservoir - a system for the delivery of drugs (e.g. chemotherapy) into the cerebrospinal fluid for treatment of patients with brain tumours - was developed by Ayub K. Ommaya, a Pakistani neurosurgeon.
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**Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy was born in July 11, 1950. He is a renowned nuclear physicist, essayist and political defense analyst. He got his bachelor's degrees in [electrical engineering](http://www.ilmkidunya.com/lists/top-ten-pakistani-scientists-4.aspx#) and Mathematics, Masters in Solid State Physics and PhD in Nuclear Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and continued to do research in Particle physics. He has been a faculty member at the Department of Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University, and Islamabad since 1973.
He got the Baker Award for Electronics in 1968 and the Abdus Salam [Prize](http://www.ilmkidunya.com/lists/top-ten-pakistani-scientists-4.aspx#) for Mathematics in 1984. He is chairman of Mashal, a non-profit organization that publishes books in Urdu on women's rights, education, environmental issues, philosophy, and modern thought.
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Dr. Riazuddin — winner of Einstein Award (2000) for his contribution in theoretical physics, notably the contribution in neutrinos. Riazuddin, pupil student of Salam, remains the most state decorated scientist of Pakistan with receiving state honors and international prizes, second to Abdus Salam.
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I always think of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan. I think what he did for Pakistan was great. Here is a little about him from Wikipedia.
Abdul Qadeer Khan (Urdu: ڈاکٹر عبد القدیر خان; born: April 1, 1936), also respectively known in Pakistan as Mohsin-e-Pakistan (in Urdu: محسن پاکِستان; lit: Savior of Pakistan), FPAS, DEng, ScD, HI, NI (twice); more widely known as Dr. A. Q. Khan, is a Pakistani nuclear scientist and ametallurgical engineer, colloquially regarded as the founder of HEU based Gas-centrifuge uranium enrichment programme for Pakistan's integratedatomic bomb project.[SUP][2][/SUP] Founded and established the Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL) in 1976, he was both its senior scientist and the Director-General until his retirement in 2001, and was an early and vital figure in other science projects. Apart from participating in atomic bomb project, he made major contributions in morphology, physical martensite, and its integrated applications in condensed and material physics.
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There are many nuclear technologist, and they all flourish under the supervision of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan. Yes, they also do have professional jealously too. :D
Samar Mubarakmand (Urdu: ثمر مبارک مند) (born September 17, 1942), (NI, HI, SI, Ph.D, FPAS), is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, who served as the founding chairman of National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM) from 2001 until 2007.[1] Samar Mubarakmand launched the Missile Integration Programme in 1987 which was successfully completed in 2005. A pioneer of Fluid and Aerodynamics in Pakistan, Mubarakmand earned renowned internationally in May 1998, when he headed the team of academic scientists which carried out the country's first and successful nuclear tests — Codename Chagai-I on May 28 and Codename Chagai-II on May 30 — in Balochistan Province of Pakistan.[2]
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Dr. Mohmmad Lateef Aftab Research Intravenous Soft Laser Therapy in the Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
“Har Pakistani Mein Chupa Hai Ek Hero”
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Ayub Khan Ommaya, MD, ScD (h.c.), FRCS, FACS (April 14, 1930, Mian Channu - July 11, 2008, Islamabad) was a Pakistani neurosurgeon and the inventor of the Ommaya reservoir. The reservoir is used to provide chemotherapy directly to the tumor site for brain tumors. Ommaya was also a leading expert in traumatic brain injuries.
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Scientists who are awarded the highest hierarchy of Pakistan, the Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Order of Excellence).
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Scientists who are conferred with second highest honored, the Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Order of Crescent).
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In 1961, international achievements first recorded in 1961 when Pakistan became third Asian country and tenth in the world when the Rehbar-I — a solid fuel expandable rocket— was launched from Sonmani Spaceport. The Rehbar-I was launched and developed under the leadership of dr. W. J. M. Turowicz, a renowned Polish-Pakistani scientist and then-project-director of this program. Since then, the program began taking flights which continued until 1970s.
