A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid

A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid
A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid
	University of Islamabad
Thesis	Low energy K-meson-nucleon scattering and elastic scattering and the elastic scattering of pions by alpha-particles (1961)
Doctoral advisor	B.H. Bransden

A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid (1 May 1933 – 9 October 2021)^[1] was a Bangladeshi physicist and professor of physics at the University of Dhaka. He was the nephew of actor-writer Shamsuddin Abul Kalam.

Early life and education

Rashid was born in a village of

Barisal district. His father Moksud Ali was the first person to have received postgraduate education in science.^[2] Rashid earned his BSc and MSc in physics from University of Dhaka in 1953 and 1954 respectively.^[3] He then completed his PhD from University of Glasgow

in theoretical physics in 1960.

Career

Rashid joined the University of Dhaka as a lecturer of the Department of Physics. He became a full professor in 1972. He was the founder and chairman of the Department of Theoretical Physics in the University of Dhaka in 1975.

University of Islamabad from 1967 to 1971.^[3]

He served as the Director of Computer Center (now the Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka) in the University of Dhaka.

He was a visiting professor at the Institute für Theoretische Kernphysik,

University of Texas, Austin and University of California, Los Angeles.^[2]

He was a senior scientific officer and principal scientific officer, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission from 1962 to 1967. He served as the vice president of Asiatic Society of Bangladesh from 1992 to 1993.