Fayyazuddin

Brother of the theoretical physicist Riazuddin

Fayyazuddin or Fayyaz Uddin, HI (Urdu: فيا ض ا لدين) (born 10 November 1930), is a Pakistani theoretical physicist and an Emeritus Professor of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at National Centre for Physics and Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. He is a senior scientist at the National Center for Physics where his research is engaged to the fields of quantum mechanics, particle physics, and meson physics. He is a brother of physicist Riazuddin and the student of Abdus Salam. Along with Riazuddin, he has published numerous physics papers and has co-authored the Quantum Mechanics by Fayyazuddin and Riazuddin which was published in 2000.

Born in Ludhiana, Fayyazuddin and Riazuddin received their intermediate education from there. Following the partition of India, the family migrated to Lahore, Pakistan. He along with his brother Riazuddin attended Punjab University. Fayyazuddin did his BA with honours in Mathematics from Punjab University, followed by his in MSc Mathematical physics under the supervision of Abdus Salam. His master's degree dissertation were written on the "Methods of Mathematical Physics", which was jointly written with Riazuddin. In 1953, he did his M.Phil. in Particle physics, writing his another master thesis on "Energy Loss of Mesons in Crystals", under the supervision of Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry from the same alma mater. After his MSc and M.Phil, Fayyaz moved to Karachi and joined the Karachi University where he became a lecturer of physics.