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Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (Urdu: پرویز امِیرعلی ہودبھائی;Urdu pronunciation: [pərʋeːz əmiːɾəliː ɦuːd̪bʱaːiː];born 11 July 1950) is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and activist who serves as a professor at the Forman Christian College and previously taught physics at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Hoodbhoy is also a prominent activist in particular concerned with promotion of freedom of speech, secularism, scientific temper and education in Pakistan.

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  • Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy ou plus simplement Pervez Hoodbhoy (en ourdou : پرویز ہودبھائی), né le 11 juillet 1950 à Karachi, est un physicien nucléaire et activiste pakistanais. Il est notamment connu pour son travail sur le modèles des partons, les corps commutatifs, la supersymétrie et l'algèbre générale. Par ailleurs, il est aussi connu pour ses prises de position en faveur de la liberté d'expression, l'éducation et le sécularisme dans son pays. (fr)
  • Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (Urdu: پرویز امِیرعلی ہودبھائی;Urdu pronunciation: [pərʋeːz əmiːɾəliː ɦuːd̪bʱaːiː];born 11 July 1950) is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and activist who serves as a professor at the Forman Christian College and previously taught physics at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Hoodbhoy is also a prominent activist in particular concerned with promotion of freedom of speech, secularism, scientific temper and education in Pakistan. Born and raised in Karachi, in a Gujarati household, Hoodbhoy studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nine years, where he received degrees in electrical engineering, mathematics and solid-state physics, eventually leading to a PhD in nuclear physics. In 1981, Hoodbhoy went on to conduct post-doctoral research at the University of Washington, before leaving to serve as a visiting professor at the Carnegie Mellon University in 1985. While still a professor at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Hoodbhoy worked as a guest scientist at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics from 1986 to 1994. He remained with the Quaid-e-Azam University until 2010, throughout which he held visiting professorships at MIT, University of Maryland and Stanford Linear Collider. In 2011, Hoodbhoy joined LUMS while also working as a researcher with Princeton University and as copa columnist with the Express Tribune. His contract with LUMS was terminated in 2013 which resulted in a controversy. He is a sponsor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and a member of the monitoring panel on terrorism of the World Federation of Scientists. Hoodbhoy has won several awards including the Abdus Salam Prize for Mathematics (1984); the Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science (2003); the Joseph A. Burton Forum Award (2010) from the American Physical Society. In 2011, he was included in the list of 100 most influential global thinkers by Foreign Policy. In 2013, he was made a member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament. Hoodbhoy remains one of Pakistan's most prominent academics. He is the author of Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality. He is the head of Mashal Books in Lahore, which claims to make "a major translation effort to produce books in Urdu that promote modern thought, human rights, and emancipation of women". Hoodbhoy has written for Project Syndicate, DAWN, The New York Times and The Express Tribune. Hoodbhoy is generally considered one of the most vocal, progressive and liberal members of the Pakistani intelligentsia. His daughter, Alia Amirali, is also a well-known feminist and political activist. (en)
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  • Listed number 85 in Foreign Policy Magazine's list of Top 100 Global Thinkers (en)
  • Associate of ICTP (en)
  • Bakers Award for Electronics (en)
  • Joseph A. Burton Forum Award by American Physical Society (en)
  • ROCASA for enhancing the public understanding of Science by Academy of Sciences of the developing World, Trieste, Italy (en)
  • "Book of the Year Award" by National Book council of Pakistan in 1993 (en)
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  • Hoodbhoy in October 2015 (en)
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  • Parton distribution functions, Field Theory, Phenomenology, supersymmetry and Abstract algebra (en)
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  • Pervez Hoodbhoy (en)
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  • Though I know that it is not welcome in my country and people who deviate from the notion that it is an Islamic state, are looked upon disapprovingly, I strongly feel that's what we need to head towards. (en)
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  • Pervez Hoodbhoy, (issued the statement on The Friday Times, 2001) (en)
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  • I am reasonably [satisfied] with my work... I do not think it is earth-shaking or... that it deserves any kind of [award]. On the other hand, receiving an [award] – even if it is a high national award – would give me absolutely no sense of achievement or satisfaction... because it carries no credibility or prestige in professional circles. Such things do not indicate that you have done good work in your field. Therefore, I decided to refuse the award. (en)
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  • Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy ou plus simplement Pervez Hoodbhoy (en ourdou : پرویز ہودبھائی), né le 11 juillet 1950 à Karachi, est un physicien nucléaire et activiste pakistanais. Il est notamment connu pour son travail sur le modèles des partons, les corps commutatifs, la supersymétrie et l'algèbre générale. Par ailleurs, il est aussi connu pour ses prises de position en faveur de la liberté d'expression, l'éducation et le sécularisme dans son pays. (fr)
  • Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (Urdu: پرویز امِیرعلی ہودبھائی;Urdu pronunciation: [pərʋeːz əmiːɾəliː ɦuːd̪bʱaːiː];born 11 July 1950) is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and activist who serves as a professor at the Forman Christian College and previously taught physics at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Hoodbhoy is also a prominent activist in particular concerned with promotion of freedom of speech, secularism, scientific temper and education in Pakistan. (en)
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