Saturday, March 16, 2013

Eminent Scientist Jamal Nazrul Islam passed away,Bangladesh

BANGLADESH NEWS
CHITTAGONG: Eminent Scientist Jamal Nazrul Islam passed away at a private hospital in the port city early Saturday.
He was 74.
Senior medical officer Dr. Nurul Haque of the hospital told , “Jamal Nazrul was kept on life support from Wednesday. He breathed his last around 12:00am while undergoing treatment at the hospital.”
Later, family members took away the body to his Sarson Road residence in the port city around 2:30am.
Jamal Nazrul Islam is a professor emeritus of Chittagong University.
He a member of the advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology & a member of the syndicate at Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology.
Professor Nazrul is the director of the Research Centre for Mathematics and Physical Sciences at Chittagong University.
He received Ekushay Padak (2001) and Bangladesh Science academy gold award (1985).
Jamal Nazrul Islam was born on 24 February 1939 in Jhenaidah, Bangladesh. He studied at Chittagong Collegiate School, going on to Lawrence College in Marit, West Pakistan where he passed the Senior Cambridge and Higher Senior Cambridge exams.
He received a BSc degree from St. Xavier`s College at the University of Calcutta.He again obtained a BA and an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge. Islam obtained his PhD in applied mathematics and theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge in 1968, followed by a DSc in 1982.

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