Riazuddin (Physicist)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Riazuddin, also spelled as Riaz-Uddin, (Urdu: رياض الدين; born 10 November, 1930), is a renowned and prominent Pakistani theoretical physicist and an eminent scientist, specializing in high-energy physics and nuclear physics. Dr. Riazuddin is one of Pakistan's top scientists and is widely known theoretical physicists in Pakistan and abroad. Starting his scientific research in physics in 1958, dr. Riazuddin was one of the senior scientist and considered one of the early pioneers of Pakistan's atomic detterence development when he was the director of the Theoretical Physics Department of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission from 1974 till 1984. Riazuddin is remained only pupil student of Nobel laureate in Physics Professor Abdus Salam.