Ishrat Hussain Usmani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ishrat Hussain Usmani

Pakistani nuclear physicist

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1917

Place of Birth: Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date of Death: 17-Jun-1992

Profession: physicist, diplomat, nuclear physicist

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Ishrat Hussain Usmani, NI (Urdu: ????? ???? ???? ??????? 15 April 1917 – 17 June 1992), best known as I.
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Usmani, was a Pakistani bureaucrat and an atomic physicist who was the second chairman of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 1960 to 1972; as well as the associate director of the Space Research Commission.During his career, he was also the Chairman of the Board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 1962 to 1963, and played a vital role there in country's peaceful development of nuclear technology to acquire the facilities.
To his peer, he is remembered as one of chief architect of country's nuclear power expansion and also given co-credited to established country's first nuclear power plant in Karachi in co-operation with Canada, with Abdus Salam.As a bureaucrat, he lobbied for science and development to become part of national politics and his efforts were also involved sending hundreds of young Pakistan's students abroad to pursue higher education in the field of nuclear technology.
Due to his long tenure as chairman of the atomic energy commission, Usmani is colloquially known as father of the "atomic energy commission", a title given to his peers.