Ishrat Hussain Usmani

Ishrat Hussain Usmani
Dr. I. H. Usmani (1917–92)
Born(1917-04-15)15 April 1917
Delhi, India
(Present day New Delhi, India)
Died17 June 1992(1992-06-17) (aged 75)
NationalityIndia (1917–47)
Pakistan (1947–92)
Alma materAligarh Muslim University
Bombay University
London University
Known forNuclear arms control
Awards Nishan-i-Imtiaz (1998)
Scientific career
FieldsAtomic physics
InstitutionsPakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
ThesisA study of the growth of compound crystals by electron diffraction (1939)
Doctoral advisorNiels Bohr
Other academic advisorsGeorge Paget Thomson

Ishrat Hussain Usmani (Urdu: عشرت حسین عثمانی) ‎ (15 April 1917 – 17 June 1992) NI, best known as I. H. Usmani, was a Pakistani atomic physicist, and later a public official who chaired the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 1960 to 1971 as well as overseeing the establishment of the Space Research Commission.

His career was mostly spent in the Government of Pakistan as a public policy official where he pushed for peaceful and commercial usage of the nuclear energy, and later working on arms control with Ministry of Defense to become a party of Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963 before joining the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as its Chair of its Board of Governors.[1] Usmani oversaw the nuclear power generation in Pakistan, working towards commissioning the nuclear power grid station in Karachi, and strengthened the role of the atomic energy commission at the United Nations.[2]

  1. ^ "The New Board of Governors" (PDF). IAEA Bulletin. 5 (1): 32. 1963.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference PINSTECH was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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