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Professor Amir Hussain Khan
Professor Amir Hussain Khan

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Professor Amir Hussain Khan
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Department of Chemistry
Dhaka University
Dhaka-1000
Bangladesh
9661920 Ex. 6185
Prof. Amir Hussain Khan
House No. 253, Flat-5A
New Elephant Road
Kataban
Dhaka, Bangladesh
862 6660

Biography

Dr. Amir Hussain Khan had his early education from the R. K. High School, Gouripur (Matriculation, 1954) and Ananda Mohan College, Mymensingh. He obtained M. Sc. in Chemistry, University of Dhaka, 1962. Graduated from the Honours School of Chemistry. McGill University, Canada, 1966, and Ph.D. in Nuclear Chemistry, McGill University, 1968, as a Colombo Plan Scholar.
Research interests and experience are in the fields of Nuclear Reactions Mechanisms and Fission Theory (Nuclear Chemistry), Analytical and Applied Atomic Spectroscopy, Theory (Nuclear Chemistry), Analytical and Applied Atocmic Spectroscopy, such as PIXE,
Received the Sixth Khwarazmi International Award in the Third position in 1993 and the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences Gold Medal Award in the Senior Group in Physical Sciences in 1993.
Post-doctoral research fellowship in the Spanish Atomic Energy Commission, Madrid, Spain, 1971 - 1972; Nuclear Research Centre, Debrecen, Hungary, 1984; and the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, the Netherlands, (Senior EEC Fellowship), 1991 - 1992. IAEA Visiting scientist, Mol. Nuclear Research Centre, Gent University and Antwerp University, Belgium, 1980. Fundamental studies include Nuclear charge dispersion phenomena in fission nuclear spectroscopy in isotopic studies of natural alpha emitters and chemical spectro- scopy.
Participated, as the Chief Investigator, in several internationally coordinated applied research programmes supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, UNDP and the Regional Cooperative Agreement in South-East Asia and the Pacific Region (RCA), since 1976. Some of them include pariticle induced X-ray emission analysis as a new analytical methodology, health related environmental research using nuclear and related analytical methods, trace elements in foodstuff and drinking water, management of solid wastes. Atmospheric pollution, nuclear-analytical science in sustainable development etc. He founded the Analytical Chemistry and the PIXE laboratories at the Atomic Energy Centre, Dhaka, two leading laboratories in the country and pioneered Trace Element Analytical Science and Research in Bangladesh.
Published more than 70 scientific papers in national and international journals of repute. Co-author of a bibliography of Medical Elementology in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
Founder Member of the International Society for Trace Element Research in Humans, USA. Member, Society of the Sigma XI, USA for promotion of research in science. Sectional President, Chemistry and Applied Chemistry, BAAS, 1988 - 1989. President, Bangladesh Environmental Society, 1993 - 1994. Life Member, Bangladesh Chemical Society. Member, Bangladesh Physical Society and Bangladesh Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been the Editor, Journal of Nuclear Science and Applications for a long time and is a Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of the Bangladesh Chemical Society. Dr. Khan, edited the Atomic Energy Programmes in Bangladesh, 1983 and the First Perspective Plan (1993 - 2010) of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, 1993.

Academy

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Elected Fellow
1993