Ghulam Dastagir Alam

Ghulam Dastagir Alam Qasmi
Dr. G.D Alam (right)
Born	1937 Faridabad, Haryana
Died	5 December 2000 Nilore, ICT
Residence	Pakistan, United Kingdom
Citizenship	Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistan
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission National Centre for Physics International Centre for Theoretical Physics Institute of Theoretical Physics Imperial College London Quaid-e-Azam University
Alma mater	Government College University University of London
Academic advisors	Dr. Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry Abdus Salam
Known for	Ultracentrifuge development Quantum Mechanics Ion Scattering Published work in Calculus and vector calculus
Notable awards	Hilal-e-Imtiaz (1983)

Ghulam Dastagir Alam Qasmi (Urdu: غلام دستگیر عالم قاسمی ; popularly known as G.D. Alam; HI, PhD), was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and professor of mathematics at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Alam is best known for conceiving and embarking the research on gas centrifuge project during the timeline of Pakistan's integrated atomic bomb project in the 1970s, and also conceived the research on Gauge theory and Gamma ray bursts throughout his career.

After the atomic bomb project, Alam joined the Department of Mathematics at the Quaid-e-Azam University as well as serving as visiting faculty at the Institute of Physics, and co-authored papers on variation calculus and fission isomer. He was one of the notable theoretical physicist in PAEC and Qau, and at one point, his fellow theorist, Munir Ahmad Khan, called Allam, as "the problem solving brain of the PAEC."

Alam attended and graduated from Government College University (GCU) with a BSc in Mathematics under the supervision of renowned theoretical physicist Abdus Salam, with an specialisation in Quantum Mechanics in 1954. In 1955, he enrolled in the Physics Department of the GCU where he obtained MSc in Physics in 1957. His master's thesis were supervised under watchful supervision of dr. R. M. Chaudhry that had contained the thorough research in Electromagnetic radiation and their emission from heavy metals to particles. After his degree in physics, Alam taught elementary physics laboratory courses in his alma mater before joining the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) in 1958.