Contribution Of MuslimsIn

Science & Technology

Presented By: Shakiluz Jaman Ahmed

B.Tech 6th SemesterDepartment of Civil Engineering

Al-Falah UniversityFaridabad, Haryana

The Missile Man of INDIADr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (Born 15 October 1931, Indian Aerospace Scientist)• Known for his work on the development of ballistic missile

& launch vehicle technology.• Between the 1970s and 1990s, he developed the Polar SLV

projects.• Chief Project Coordinator during Pokhran-II nuclear bomb test

explosions in May 1999.• In 1998, along with cardiologist Dr. Soma Raju, he developed

a low cost coronary stent. It was named as "Kalam-Raju Stent" honouring them.

• 2012, the duo, designed a rugged tablet PC for health care in rural areas, which was named as "Kalam-Raju Tablet".

 The first Muslim to win Nobel prize in scienceDr. Mohammad Abdus Sa lam

( 21 January 1926 – 21 November 1996, Pakistani theoretical physicist )• Shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to Theory

of Electroweak Unification.• Founding director of Space & Upper Atmosphere Research

Commission (SUPARCO), Pakistan.•  He made an important and significant contribution in quantum

electrodynamics & quantum field theory, including its extension into particle and nuclear physics.

• Salam introduced the massive Higgs bosons to the theory of the Standard Model, where he later predicted the existence of proton decay.

• He also worked on Vector Meson,  hypothetical particle. He also formulated the magnetic photon.

Large Hadron Collider, CERN

The Father of Tubular Designs for high-risesM r. F a z l u r R a h m a n K h a n(3 April 1929 - 27 March 1982, Bangladeshi Structural Civil Engineer, Architect)• His "tube concept," using all the exterior wall perimeter structure of a building

to simulate a thin-walled tube, revolutionised tall building design.• Most buildings over 40-storeys constructed since the 1960s now use a tube

design derived from Khan's structural engineering principles.• Mr Khan was also a pioneer in computer-aided design (CAD).

DeWitt-Chestnut apartment building, Chicago 

Framed TubeBank Of Chine, Hong Kong

Trussed tubeWills Tower, ChicagoBundled tube

780 Third Avenue, NY CityTube in tube

The birdman of IndiaDr. Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali( 12 November 1896 - 20 June 1987, Indian ornithologist and naturalist )• He is the first Indians to conduct systematic bird

surveys across India.•  Known for his famous Book “Fall Of A Sparrow”.• He prevent the destruction of what is now the Silent

Valley National Park, Kerala.• Create the Bharatpur bird sanctuary (Keoladeo

National Park), Rajasthan.•  He studied at close hand, the breeding of the baya

weaver and discovered their mating system of sequential polygamy.

Weaver Bird

Reac to r KhanD r. M u n i r A h m a d K h a n( 20 May 1926 - 22 April 1999,  Pakistani nuclear engineer )•  First Asian member from any developing country who was

appointed as  head of Reactor Division in the IAEA from 1961-1972.

• Chairman of the Board of Governors of the IAEA from 1986–87.

•  Father of the Pakistan's atomic bomb project.•  The clandestine Cold war program developed the atomic

weapons that ultimately resulted in first successful atomic bomb testing on May 1998 as Kirana-II, Chagai-I & II.

 T h e i n n o v a t o r o f G R I P SMr. M i r za Fa i zan

 (Indian aerospace scientist, innovator and technology entrepreneur.)

• He founded Avembsys Technologies to design and develope innovative system Ground Reality Information Processing System or GRIPS.

• GRIPS was developed from paper to an aviation safety system within a record time of 18 months wherein Faizan led the R&D.

• GRIPS was evaluated by NASA scientists and aerospace experts across the globe and received international accolades.

• He was recipient of many prestigious national and international awards for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Inventor of the gas laserDr. Ali Javan( Born December 26, 1926, Iranian-American physicist )• He co-invented the gas laser in 1960, with William R.

Bennett.• In 2007 Javan was ranked Number 12 on the list of the

"Top 100 Living Geniuses".• Javan carried out the first demonstration of optical

heterodyne beats with lasers in 1961.• He introduced the concept of an optical antenna of

several wavelengths long.• Javan developed the first absolutely accurate

measurement of the speed of light.

 The 1st woman honoured with the Fields Medal D r. M a r y a m M i r z a k h a n i

(Born May 1977, Iranian mathematician)

• Mirzakhani was awarded the Fields Medal in 2014 for "her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces".• Her research topics include Teichmüller

theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry.• has made several contributions to the theory of moduli

spaces of Riemann surfaces.• Named one of Nature's 10 "people who mattered" of

2014.

Father of FemtochemistryD r. A h m e d H a s s a n Z e w a i l(Born 26 February 1946, Egyptian scientist )

•Won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry.• In January 2010, Ahmed Zewail, Elias

Zerhouni, and Bruce Alberts became the first US science envoys to Islam, visiting Muslim-majority countries.

 A founders of the Soviet space industryLieutenant-General Kerim Aliyevich Kerimov( 14 November 1917 – 29 March 2003, Azerbaijani-Soviet/Russian aerospace engineer & rocket scientist )

• He was one of the lead architects behind the string of Soviet successes that stunned the world from the late 50s.• One of the designer & developer of the first satellite,

the Sputnik 1 in 1957.• The first human spaceflight, Yuri Gagarin's 108-minute trip

around the globe aboard the Vostok 1 in 1961.• His identity was kept a secret from the public for most of

his career till 1987. Sputnik 1 in 1957

The Kardar–Parisi–Zhang (KPZ) equationDr. Mehran Kardar (A prominent Iranian born physicist)• Particularly known for the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang

(KPZ) equation in theoretical physics.• He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in

2001.• Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, USA.

Dr. Munir Hasan Nayfeh( Born in December 1945, Palestinian-American particle physicist)

• Renowned for his pioneering work in nanotechnology.

• In 1977,he answered the question that Richard Feynma posited in 1959 "what would happen if man could manipulate individual atoms? and succeed in rearranging them within their chemical constituents?’’

• Nayfeh succeeded in manipulating individual atoms into the shape of a 'P' enclosed within a heart.

• This ground breaking work has enabled the advent of electron microscopes & nanotechnology.

Dr. Gamal Hamdan (February 2, 1928 - April 17, 1993, Egyptian scholar and geographer)• Hemdan left behind a rich legacy of writing in

both Arabic and English languages, including seventeen books in Arabic and eight in English, in addition to several articles in Arabic, published in newspapers, magazines and other publications.

• his most prominent books are The Character of Egypt, Studies of the Arab World, and The Contemporary Islamic World Geography, which form a trilogy on Egypt's natural, economic, political and cultural character and its position in the world.

The 1st alien to have access to the secret US atomic FacilitiesDr. Sameera Moussa

( March 3, 1917 - August 5, 1952, Egyptian nuclear scientist )

• She wanted to make nuclear treatment as available and as cheap as Aspirin.

• She came up with a historic equation that would help break the atoms of cheap metals such as copper, paving the way for a cheap nuclear bomb.• She organized the Atomic Energy for Peace

Conference and sponsored a call for setting an international conference under the banner "Atom for Peace“.• She volunteered to help treat cancer patients at

various hospitals.• She was given permission to visit the secret US atomic

facilities.

Dr. Ali Moustafa Mosharafa Pasha(11 July 1898 – 16 January 1950,  Egyptian theoretical physicist)• Contributed to the development of 

the quantum theory as well as the theory of relativity and corresponded with Albert Einstein.

• Mosharafa published 25 original papers in distinguished scientific journals about quantum theory, the theory of relativity, and the relation between radiation and matter.

 First Muslim in space

Sultan bin Salman Al Saud(Born 27 June 1956, Arabian payload specialist, Fighter pilot )• He was payload specialist on STS-51-G Discovery.• Time in space 7 Days 01 hour 38 mins.• he represented the Arab Satellite

Communications Organization (ARABSAT) in deploying their satellite, ARABSAT-1B.

• Holds the record for being the youngest person to fly on the Space Shuttle, at the age of 28.

First Muslim woman in spaceAnousheh Ansari

(12 September 1966, Iranian engineer)• Ansari lifted off on the Soyuz TMA-9 mission with

other crew members at 04:59 (UTC) on Monday September 18, 2006, from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

•  The 4th (and first female) space tourist.• Landed safely aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on September

29, 2006, at 01:13 UTC on the steppes of Kazakhstan.

•  the first person to publish a weblog from space.• Ansari performed a series of experiments on behalf

of the European Space Agency in ISS.

Dr. Syed Zahoor Qasim(31 December 1926,  Indian marine biologist)

• Lead India's exploration to Antarctica.

• Guided the other seven expeditions from 1981 to 1988.

If you are worthy enough;Your religion is never going to be an

excuse.

ARE YOU WORHTY ?

Ask yourself

THANK YOU.

Have a nice day.

Shakiluz Jaman AhmedCV-12-147

M:09818096073

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