National Centre for Physics
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The National Centre for Physics is a federally funded research institute and national laboratory co-located near Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Guesthouse on the campus
Munir Ahmad Khan
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Munir Ahmad Khan, NI, HI, FPAS, was a Pakistani nuclear engineer who is credited, among others, with being the "father of the atomic bomb program" of Pakistan for his leading role in developing the na
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…subjects of current interest in physics and allied sciences. His suggestion was accepted by the chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), Munir Ahmad Khan, and in 1976 the International Nathiagali Summer College on Physics and Contemporary Needs (INSC) was inaugurated at Nathiagali, co-sponsored by ICTP…
Munir Ahmed Khan
The ICTP building in Italy that was established from the lobbying of Khan on behalf of Salam at IAEA in 1964.
The nuclear weapons test, codename Chagai-I, conducted at the rocky granite mountain in May 1998. The testing site for the detonation was selected, and then built around 1977–78.
The city skyline of Islamabad where Khan resided during his final years.