List of Pakistani scientists

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This is a list of prominent Pakistani scientists.

A

• Abdul Hameed Nayyar, physicist
• Sitara Brooj Akbar, Scientist and Child prodigy
• Abdul Majid, rocket scientist and engineer
• Abdul Qadeer Khan, metallurgical engineer
• Abdullah Sadiq, nuclear physicist
• Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist (Nobel Laureate 1979)
• Ahmad Hasan Dani, archaeologist
• Ansar Pervaiz, nuclear scientist
• Anwar Nasim, molecular biologist
• Arif Zaman, mathematician and statistician
• Asad A. Abidi, electrical engineer
• Asghar Qadir, mathematician and cosmologist
• Atta ur Rahman, organic chemist
• Awais Khan, plant geneticist

B

• Bina Shaheen Siddiqui, chemist

F

• Dr Faiz Jalil , Technology scientist
• Faheem Hussain, theoretical physicist
• Fayyazuddin, theoretical physicist

G

• Ghulam Dastagir Alam, theoretical physicist
• Ghulam Murtaza, theoretical physicist

H

• Hakeem Muhammad Saeed, medical researcher
• Haroon Ahmed, electrical engineer
• Hassan Raza, Computer Scientist; Computational Biologist

I

• Ishfaq Ahmad (computer scientist)
• Iqbal Hussain Qureshi, chemist
• Irfan Siddiqi, physicist in quantum measurement & nano-science
• Irshad Hussain, chemist
• Ishfaq Ahmad, nuclear physicist
• Ishrat Hussain Usmani, nuclear physicist
• Ismat Beg, mathematician

J

• Javaid Laghari, electrical engineer
• Javed Iqbal Kazi, renal pathologist

K

• Kushnood Ahmed Siddiqui, scientist

M

• M. A. B. Beg, theoretical particle physicist
• Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary, organic chemist
• Muhammad Masud Ahmad, theoretical physicist
• Muhammad Suhail Zubairy, physicist in quantum optics
• Muhammad Yar Khohaver, chemist
• Mujahid Kamran, theoretical physicist
• Mumtaz Ali Kazi, chemist
• Muneer Ahmad Rashid, applied mathematician
• Munir Ahmad Khan, nuclear engineer
• Muhammad Awais, applied mathematician, COMSATS University Islamabad, Attock Campus

N

• Nazir Ahmed, nuclear physicist
• Nergis Mavalvala, astrophysicist
• Naweed Syed, neuroscientist

P

• Pervez Hoodbhoy, nuclear physicist
• Peter Finke, particle physicist

Q

• Qaisar Shafi, theoretical physicist
• Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry, meteorologist
• Qasim Mehdi, molecular biologist
• M. Qasim Jan, geologist

R

• Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry, nuclear physicist
• Rayid Ghani, computer scientist
• Raziuddin Siddiqui, astrophysicist
• Riaz-ud-Din, theoretical physicist

S

• Safdar Kiyani, ecologist
• Salim Mehmud, nuclear scientist
• Salim-uz-Zaman Siddiqui, chemist
• Samar Mubarakmand, nuclear physicist
• Shahid Hussain Bokhari, computer systems engineer
• Shaukat Hameed Khan, theoretical physicist
• Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, nuclear and controls engineer
• Syed Tajammul Hussain, chemist and nano-technologist
• Sarfaraz K. Niazi, biopharmacist

T

• Tasneem M. Shah, theoretical physicist
• Tasneem Zehra Hussain, string theorist
• Tariq Mustafa, nuclear scientist

U

• Umar Saif, computer scientist

Z

• Zia Mian, nuclear physicist

See also

• Science and technology in Pakistan

References