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Dr. Nazeer Ahmed is a scientist, inventor, historian, legislator and philanthropist. ==Biography== Nazeer Ahmed was born in Tumkur in the princely state of Mysore, India in 1939 into a farming family. His father Abdul Azeem was a Sufi spiritual scholar of the Qadariya Order. He achieved the first rank to the state in the public examination of 1952 and won the Maharaja of Mysore gold medal. Because of the consistency with which he maintained his rank status in state level and interstate examinations, he is known in Karnataka as "Rank Nazeer". In 1961 he proceeded to the California Institute of Technology as Institute Scholar and as a Tata Scholar. He obtained his MS and AeE degrees from Caltech. In 1964–65 he worked in Huntsville, Alabama on the Saturn, Apollo and Lunar Land Rover Projects at the Marshall Space Flight Center. In 1967 he obtained a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University. He studied management under Peter Drucker at New York University and obtained an MBA from Rider University, New Jersey. In 1977, he returned briefly to India and was elected a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from the 57th constituency. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed worked as project manager on the Hubble Space Telescope. He designed, assembled, tested and delivered diffraction-limited performance in its secondary mirror assembly. Between 1984 and 1997 he was program manager on several strategic and tactical programs. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed holds twelve US patents in advanced composites and space-based lasers. He was a chairman of the (AIRAPT ) conference in high pressure physics in Denver, Colorado in 1977. He has published a large number of papers in scientific journals including Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Journal of Basic Engineering, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and other publications. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed has written extensively on Islamic history and culture (www.historyofislam.com). His two-volume study ''Islam in Global History'' was published in the United States and translated into Urdu. He is the author of an ''Encyclopedia of Islamic History'' ((History of Islam )) and a spiritual treatise "What Makes Us Human?". Dr. Nazeer Ahmed is the director of the American Institute of Islamic History and Culture in California and a senior advisor to the World Organization for Resource Development and Education in Washington, DC and to (HMS Institute of Technology ), India. He also serves on the Steering Committee of Elijah Institute, Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed translated the Qur'an into American English; the translation was released by Maulana Rashdi of Jami Masjid Bangalore. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed was elected a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 42nd Congressional District in California in 1988. He was a candidate for US Congress, 46 CA Congressional District in 1992. In India he set up a scholarship fund in the late 1990s called Rank Nazeer Foundation to support poor students. In 2013 Dr. Ahmed was appointed a member of the Karnataka Knowledge Commission whose mandate is to transform Karnataka into a knowledge based state be it in agriculture, science, technology, arts, sports or traditional knowledge. 255x300px 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「Nazeer Ahmed (space scientist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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