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Professor Quazi Abdul Fattah
Professor Quazi Abdul Fattah

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Professor Quazi Abdul Fattah
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Honorary Professor
Department of Botany
Dhaka University
Dhaka-1000
Bangladesh
966 1900 Ex. 6035
Prof. Dr. Quazi Abdul Fattah
Flat-B3, House-27, Road-5
Dhanmondi-R/A
Dhaka-1205
Bangladesh
966 6065
1711330024

Biography

First Class First in Botany Preliminary in 1952 and also First Class First in M.Sc Final in 1953. Obtained special Honours in Botany with Zoology and Microbiology as subsidiary from the University of Bristol, U. K. in 1960. Received the Ph.D. degree in 1969 from the University of British Columbia, Canada. In 1961 participated in Summer Science Course for Biology teachers of Universities and Colleges from all over the then Pakistan and stood First.
Plant Physiology, Plant Biochemistry, Horticulture and Plant Anatomy with special emphasis on the use of plant growth regulating substances on the physiological and biochemical parameters with specific emphasis on increasing the yield of important agricul
Awarded a Gold Medal of Dhaka University in 1954. Received UNESCO award in 1962 for being the first author of a Text Book in Biology,"Saral Jibbignan" published by East Pakistan Text Book Board.
Awarded Colombo Plan Scholarship, 1957 to 1960 to study B.Sc. Honours in Botany in UK. Received Central Overseas Scholarship from September, 1966 for three years for doing Ph.D. in Canada. Fellow, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. Council Member, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (1993 - 1995). Member, Academic Council and Board of Advanced Studies, Dhaka University (1978 - 1999). Awarded a Gold Medal as an Eminent Botanist in 2005, and Honorary Fellowship of Bangladesh Botanical Society. Paul Harris Fellow (PHF) in Rotary Interna- tional.
In 2006, he was made an Honorary Fellow of Bangla Academy for his distiguished contribution in Teaching and Research in Botany in Bangladesh.
Lecturer in Biology, Sunamganj College, Sylhet (13 March, 1954 to 26 July, 1954). Lecturer in Botany, Dhaka College (27 July, 1954 to 26 September, 1957). Study leave (27 September, 1957 to August 1960) for doing Honours course in
U. K.; Lecturer in Botany in Eden Girls' College (August, 1960 to 31 January, 1962); Professor of Botany, Murari Chand College, Sylhet (1 February, 1962 to 22 November, 1962); Senior Lecturer in Botany Department, Dhaka University from 23rd November, 1962. Promoted to Reader in 1970. Professor of Botany in 1979. Chairman, Botany Department, Dhaka University, September, 1978 to September, 1981. Appointed Senior Lecturer in Makerere University, Uganda in 1974 but did not join. Appointed Professor in Botany, Basrah University, Iraq in 1981, but did not join.
Served as Professor and Head of the Department of Crop Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria from September, 1981 to 30 September, 1985. Again joined as Professor of Botany, Dhaka University in October, 1985. Got Selection Grade Professorship in 1990. During the stay in Canada he was a Teaching Assistant in Biology and a Post-doctoral Research Assistant in Plant Physiology in the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Part-time Visiting Professor in Botany, Jahangirnagar University, Savar from 1986 for 12 years.
So far about 80 research publications in national and international journals of repute. A country paper on Medicinal Plants Research in Bangladesh was presented in UNESCO seminar, Botany 2000 in Asia in 1992. A number of scientific articles published in Population Education Programme: Publication on the environmental issues viz., effects of population on different kinds of pollution. Presented Country paper at Asian Environment Society Meeting in Tokyo, 1979. Senior author of four books three in Bengali and one in English. Editor of a Biology book in English of NCTB, and a Book by Bangladesh Open University. Also senior author of Paribesh Biggan Published by NCTB
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Italy, East Germany, West Germany, France, Holland, England, Wales, Scotland, Canada, USA, Mexico, Thailand, The Philippines, Hongkong, Japan, Egypt, Lebanon, Greece, Nigeria- Niger and Hawaii. Visited 54 institutions of world repute at home and abroad. Visited seven Botanical Gardens of world repute in UK, India, France, Sir Lanka, USA and Canada.
House Tutor, Dhaka Hall, Dhaka University (1964 - 1966); Deputy Librarian (1982 - 1983) and Hall Master (Provost), Ibrahim Imam Hall, University of Maiduguri (1983 - 1985); Served as member of the Executive body, Secretary, Vice-President and President of the Bangladesh Botanical Society; Founder Vice-President of Society of Natural Sciences (Estd. 1960); Vice-President, Asian Environment Society (1979 - 1981); Founder President, Bangladesh Society of Plant Physiologists; Founder Senior Vice-President, Association of Plant Physiologists of SAARC countries; Member, British Society for Plant Growth Regulation; Life member and Ex-Treasurer, Bangladesh Association of Scientists and Scientific Professions (BASSP); Ex-Council Member, Bangladesh Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS); Ex-Member of the Executive Board of Society of Conservation of Nature and Environment (SCONE); Ex-Member, Canadian Botanical Society; Member, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh; Life Member, Bangladesh Botanical Society; Senator of the First Senate of the University of Dhaka; served as Joint Secretary and President of the Teachers and Officers’ Club of Dhaka University; President of two residential areas of Dhaka University - the South Fuller Road and Issa Khan Road Kalyan Samiti. President of the Rotary Club of Dhaka Buriganga. Assistant Governor, Rotary District 3280 Bangladesh; Director of Vocational Service (2006 - 2007); Founder Secretary and now President of Bangladesh Canadian Alumni Association; Treasurer and Joint Secretary of the Islamic Society, University of Bristol, U.K. (1957 - 1960); First Editor, The Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences (1991 - 1993) and member of the Editorial Board of that journal (1993 - 1995); second Editor out of four, "Plant Science and Man: Problems and Prospects" Proceedings of the International Botanical Conference, Dhaka 1991; Member of the Editorial Board of Bangladesh Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research; and journal of Life Sciences, Jahangirnagar University. Ex. Member of the Governing Council, Independent University of Bangladesh as representative of "Bangladesh Bishwbiddalaya Parishad"; Expert Member of the Selection Committee for appointment of Readers and Professors of Tribhuban University, Nepal (1988); was Member of the selection committees for appointment of teachers in Dhaka University, Rajshahi University, Chittagong University and Jahangirnagar University. Editor of Bangladesh Journal of Botany (1997 - 1999, 2003 - 2005, 2006 - continuing) and Member of the Editorial Committee for more than two decades. Life member, Bangla Academy, Life member, Dhaka University Alumni Association. Life member Dhaka University Registered Graduates.

Academy

Council Member
Elected Fellow
1991