Asghar Qadir
Asghar Qadir | |
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Qadir in 2023 | |
| Born | 23 July 1946 |
| Citizenship | Pakistan |
| Alma mater | University of London Imperial College London |
| Known for | His work on the mathematical sciences, relativity, economics, cosmology |
| Awards | Hilal-i-Imtiaz (2008) Sitara-i-Imtiaz (1999) Pakistan Academy of Sciences Gold Medal in 1996 Fulbright Award (1979) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) University of Texas at Austin (UT) |
| Doctoral advisor | Roger Penrose |
| Other academic advisors | John Archibald Wheeler |
Asghar Qadir, HI, SI, FPAS (Urdu: اصغر قادر born 23 July 1946) is a Pakistani mathematician, physicist and economist. In mathematics he contributed to the fields of differential equations, number theory and special functions. In physics his major contributions are to general relativity, astrophysics, cosmology, quantum field theory, and related fields. In economics he worked on critiquing the usual approach to Islamic economics, and introduced the ideas of dual sector inflation and quantum economics. He was an educationist: as a university teacher and administrator; and planning for the development of his fields of work in Pakistan, and to some extent in other parts of the Third World.