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Abdul Qadeer Khan, NI, HI, FPAS (; b. 1 April 1936), and known widely as A. Q. Khan, is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and a metallurgical engineer, and the founder of the uranium enrichment program for Pakistan's atomic bomb project. Khan founded and established the Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL) in 1976, serving as both its senior scientist and Director-General until his retirement in 2001. Khan was also an early and vital figure in other Pakistani national science projects, making major contributions in research on molecular morphology, the physics of martensite alloys, condensed matter physics and materials physics. In January 2004, Dr. Khan was summoned by the Pakistani government for a debriefing on his active role in proliferating nuclear weapons technology to other countries after the United States provided evidence of these activities to the Pakistan Government. Khan formally admitted his responsibility for the acitvities in question a month later. It is alleged that Khan's activities were sanctioned by Pakistani authorities. The Pakistan government has sharply dismissed these claims.〔http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/pakistan/khan.htm〕 After years of official house arrest during and following his debriefing, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on 6 February 2009 declared Abdul Qadeer Khan to be a free citizen of Pakistan, allowing him free movement inside the country. The verdict was rendered by Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Aslam. In September 2009, expressing concerns over the Islamabad High Court's decision to end all security restrictions on Khan, the United States warned that Khan still remains a "serious proliferation risk". ==Early life== Khan was born in 1936 in Bhopal, British India, into an Urdu-speaking family who claimed to be ethnic Pashtuns but were probably of indigenous origins.〔http://www.answers.com/Q/Is_Abdul_qadeer_Khan_Pathan〕〔http://defence.pk/threads/dr-abdul-qadeer-khan.19219/〕 His mother, Zulekha (née Begum), a housewife; his father, Abdul Ghafoor〔He belonged to a Shaikh Hindu convert family and later adopted the title or surname of 'Khan' and started to claim falsely that he was of Pashtun origins〕 was an alumnus of Nagpur University and an academic who served in the British Indian Education ministry who permanently settled the family in Bhopal State after his retirement in 1935. After the violent partition of India in 1947, his family emigrated from India to Pakistan in 1952, and settled in Karachi, Sindh.〔 Briefly attending the D.J. Science College, he enrolled in Karachi University in 1956 to study physics. In 1960, he graduated with degree in physics with minor in mathematics, where his degree concentration was in solid-state physics. For a short time, Khan worked for the city government as an inspector of weights and measures.〔 In 1961, he went to Germany to study metallurgy at the Technical University in Berlin (TU Berlin) but made a transfer to Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands in 1965.〔 At Delft, he obtained engineer's degree in technology (an equivalent to MS) in 1967 and joined the Catholic University of Leuven for his doctoral studies.〔 Supervised by Dr. Martin Brabers at Leuven University, Khan received D.Eng. in metallurgical engineering in 1972.〔 His doctoral thesis dealt and contained fundamental work on martensite, and its extended industrial applications to the field of morphology— a field that studies the shape, size, texture and phase distribution of physical objects.〔〔Khan, Abdul Qadeer, ''The effect of morphology on the strength of copper-based martensites'', Doctor of Engineering thesis under the supervision of Professor Martin J. Brabers, Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, March 1972.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abdul Qadeer Khan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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