Munir Ahmad Khan

Munir Ahmad Khan (1926 to 1999) was a Pakistani nuclear engineer, born in Kasur, who trained in electrical engineering at the University of the Punjab and at North Carolina State University and then studied reactor physics at Argonne National Laboratory. After working for Allis-Chalmers and Commonwealth Edison, he joined the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna in 1958, where he worked on reactor technology and organized more than twenty technical conferences. He helped Abdus Salam to found the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. From 1972 to 1991 he chaired the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, directing the fuel cycle and weapons programme that led to the tests of May 1998, and later he advocated nuclear power generation as a substitute for hydroelectricity in Pakistan. He received the Nishan-i-Imtiaz in 2012, after his death.