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Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (Urdu: ; born 11 July 1950) is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, essayist and national security analyst. He taught at the Quaid-e-Azam University physics department for 40 years before becoming a professor of Physics and Mathematics at Forman Christian College University in Lahore where he currently teaches. Dr. Hoodbhoy graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics, a master's in solid state physics, and a PhD degree in nuclear physics. He has held visiting professorships at MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Maryland and in 2003 was invited to the Pugwash Council for a 6-year stay. He is a sponsor of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and a member of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism of the World Federation of Scientists. Among the awards he has won include the IEEE Baker Award for Electronics (1968); the Abdus Salam Prize for Mathematics (1984); the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science (2003); the Joseph A. Burton Award (2010) from the American Physical Society and the Jean Meyer Award from Tufts University. In 2011, he was included in the list of 100 most influential global thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine. In 2013, he was made a member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament. Dr. Hoodbhoy is the author of ''Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality'', now in eight languages. He created and anchored a series of TV programmes on Pakistan's education system and two other series that aimed at bringing scientific concepts to ordinary members of the public. As the head of ''Mashal'' Books in Lahore, he leads a major translation effort to produce books in Urdu that promote modern thought, human rights, and emancipation of women. ==Early life and education== Born and raised in Karachi, Sindh, Hoodbhoy passed the competitive O-Level and A-Level exams after attending the famed Karachi Grammar School.〔http://old.drsohail.com/Articals/Pervezhoodbhoy.htm〕 After earning a scholarship, Hoodbhoy went to the United States to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). While attending the MIT in Massachusetts, Hoodbhoy worked for a local Pakistani restaurant based in Massachusetts to support his studies and showed a great interest in electronics and mathematics.〔http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2012/08/interview-dr-pervez-hoodbhoy/〕 At MIT, Hoodbhoy graduated with double BSc in Electrical Engineering and mathematics in 1971, followed by MS in physics with a concentration in solid-state physics in 1973. After graduation, Hoodbhoy joined the Quaid-e-Azam University (Qau) as a researcher and renewed his scholarship to resume his studies in the United States.〔 Hoodbhoy continued his research in doctoral studies in physics at the MIT, and awarded PhD in Nuclear physics in 1978.〔 In the United States, his collaboration took place with the who participated in well known Manhattan Project in the 1940s, who subsequently influenced in his philosophy.〔 〕 Hoodbhoy remained a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Washington, for a short time.〔 In 1973, Hoodbhoy joined the Institute of Physics of the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore.〔 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「Pervez Hoodbhoy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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