Mujahid Kamran | |
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| Born | (1951-01-23)23 January 1951 (age 74) |
| Citizenship | Pakistan |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh University of the Punjab |
| Awards | National Book Foundation Award (2000) Pride of Performance Award by thePresident of Pakistan (1999) Abdus Salam Award (1985) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | University of the Punjab (PU) International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) King Saud University (KSU) |
| Doctoral advisor | L.L.J. Vick |
Syed Mujahid Kamran (born 23 January 1951) is a Pakistanitheoretical physicist and a formervice-chancellor of theUniversity of the Punjab inLahore,Pakistan.
He is a professor ofPhysics[1] and previously served as the chairman of the Physics Department at theUniversity of the Punjab[2] (1995–2001) and (January 2007 – January 2008). From 2004–2007, he served as the dean of the Faculty of Sciences at the same institution.[2] In January 2008, he was appointedvice-chancellor of the Punjab University by theGovernor of Punjab, Lieutenant GeneralKhalid Maqbool, on the recommendation of a search committee.[2]
Kamran joined theUniversity of the Punjab as a lecturer in 1972 and became an assistant professor in 1982, associate professor in 1986, and professor in 1988.[2] He is a formerFulbright Fellow[2] at theUniversity of Georgia from 1988–89.
Kamran was born on 23 January 1951, inGujrat, Pakistan.[3] In his early youth, he moved toRawalpindi, where his father, Syed Shabbir Hussain, took a position as apolitical correspondent for thePakistan Times. From 1955 to 1969 he studied at the educational institutions of Rawalpindi. In 1965, Kamran did hismatriculation fromSir Syed High School,[2] standing first in the class.[3] Kamran later did his F.Sc. in 1967 and BSc in 1969 fromGordon College, Rawalpindi.[2][3]
He attended theUniversity of the Punjab and earned an MSc in Physics in 1971,[2] specialising in theoretical particle physics. He won merit scholarships during the periods 1965–1967, 1967–1969, 1969–1971.[2] He was awarded a doctoral scholarship by theGovernment of Pakistan under the Central Overseas Training Scholarship Scheme and travelled to Great Britain to attend theUniversity of Edinburgh in 1975. There, he received a PhD intheoretical physics in 1979.[2][3][4] His doctoral thesis was titled "The Dual Absorptive Model and Elastic Hadronic Scattering at High Energies and Small Momentum Transfers" and was supervised by Dr. L.L.J. Vick.[3]
After completing his PhD, Kamran returned to Pakistan in 1979, and joined his alma mater as lecturer in physics. He has been teaching postgraduate (MSc and M.Phil) and undergraduate (BSc Hons) classes at Punjab University (PU). He has also taught PhD, MSc and BSc courses atKing Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he was an associate professor from 2001–2004. KSU has an American system with a BSc awarded after 16 years, and MSc after 18 years of education. Courses he taught at PhD and MSc level at KSU were: Physics of Elementary Particles,Quantum Field Theory I and II,Gauge Theories, Mathematical Physics, and Quantum Mechanics II. He also taughtQuantum Mechanics at the BSc final year level.
After becoming the chairman of the Physics Department in May 1995,[2] he initiated a program of grooming talented students (through extra lectures and coaching) so that they could win foreign scholarships. Owing to his efforts, PU physics students have won about 40 fellowships (worth about 3 million dollars) since 1999. This program was initiated well before GOP/HEC launched its manpower training programs. Not a single penny of the GOP/HEC has been spent in this regard as these scholarships are funded by Western institutions. Prof. T. Bolton ofKSU referred to him as "a goldmine of graduate students". He was conferred with thePride of Performance award in 1998.[5]In 2008, he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Punjab.[6] He also published a brief book on the life of Albert Einstein, titledEinstein and Germany.[7]
In 2013, Kamran published a book entitled9/11 and the New World Order.[8] In this book, he has tried to substantiate some of the popular9/11 conspiracy theories. In an article on 24 September 2012, he wrote that currently 95% of theUS media is owned by only six corporations, whose top echelons are dominated byZionists allied with the banking cabal: "With the US military and intelligence apparatus in their control, with their ownership of the media, and with their control of academia, it is easy for them to direct assassinations andfalse flag operations, such as the murder ofJFK and9/11."[9]
On 11 September 2013, while taking part in a talk show on the Pakistani 24-hour news channel Din News, he supported the 9/11 conspiracy theories.[10][11] He blamed the international bankers for all the ills in the world. He also criticised the US think tanks such as theCouncil on Foreign Relations for pushing the US into wars.[11]
As a young student, Kamran was a keen field hockey player and a science debater. He was a member of the Gordon College hockey team (1967–1969)[3] as well as the Punjab University hockey team (1969–1971). He was captain of the PU hockey team between 1970 and 1971.[3] He was a member of the Gordon College House of Commons Debating Club from 1965 to 1969[3] and was president of the Punjab University Physics Association from 1970 to 1971.
Kamran is the son of veteran journalist, scholar and former bureau chief of The Pakistan Times, Islamabad, Syed Shabbir Hussain. He has three brothers and two sisters.
Research publications by Kamran can be found at the following link, organised byINSPIRE-HEP:
Science
Politics
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