Mohammad Sajjad Alam
| Mohammad Sajjad Alam | |
|---|---|
| Born |
5 January 1947 (age 70) Dhaka, Bengal Presidency, British Raj (now Bangladesh) |
| Nationality |
 US
|
| Fields | particle physics |
| Institutions |
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals University at Albany, SUNY |
| Alma mater |
Dhaka University Indiana University |
Mohammad Sajjad "Saj" Alam (born 5 January 1947) is an American physicist born in British India (Pakistan after 1947, and Bangladesh after 1971). His work has focused on particle physics and computational physics. He has played a significant role in several major particle physics experiments (the Mark II, CLEO, GEM, BaBar, ATLAS collaborations) that have led to new discoveries in the area of high-energy particle physics.
Alam was born in Dhaka, then in the Bengal Presidency of British India (now Bangladesh ), to a well-educated family of Kolkata, British India. His family moved to West Pakistan around 1971, after the secession of East Pakistan. Alam is one of eleven siblings. His eldest brother, Muhammad Mahmood Alam (1935 – 2013), was a Pakistani fighter pilot and war hero, who rose to the rank of one-star general in the Pakistan Air Force. Another brother, M. Shahid Alam, is an economist and a professor at Northeastern University,
Alam decided to become a physicist when his eighth grade science teacher at Saint Gregory High School in Dhaka, introduced him to atomic and nuclear physics. "I was hooked; I came home and told my father I know that I would become a physicist."
He was the first member of his family to come to the United States, and is one of the first Pakistanis to get a PhD in experimental particle physics. He is now a naturalized American citizen, and lives in the US. Alam is married and has two children.
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