Munir Ahmad Rashid

Muneer Ahmad Rashid
Born	1934 (age 82–83) Lahore, Punjab Province
Residence	Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory
Citizenship	Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistani
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Quaid-i-Azam University
Alma mater	Punjab University (PU) London University
Doctoral advisor	Abdus Salam
Known for	Pakistan's nuclear detterence program Nuclear and Quantum mechanics Applied mathematics Special unitary group Fermat's Last Theorem Mathematical physics
Influenced	Abdus Salam
Notable awards	PAS Gold medal (2010)

Muneer Ahmad Rashid, PhD, D.Sc., PAS Gold Medal, FPAS (born 1934), also spelled as Munir Ahmad Rashid, is a Pakistani Mathematical Physicist and Emeritus Professor of Applied and Mathematical Physics at the Centre for Advanced Mathematics and Physics of the National University of Sciences and Technology.

A Physicist turned Mathematician, Rashid has made numerous contributions in Special unitary group, Applied Mathematics, theoretical and nuclear physics, SO(2), and dark energy. A student of illustrious physicist and scientist Dr. Abdus Salam, Rashid has 80 research publications in globally reputed journals.

Rashid was born in Lahore, British India where he had completed his high-school from there in 1950. Rashid attended the Punjab University in 1950, and had received his double B.Sc.(Hons) in Physics and Mathematics in 1955. In 1957, he did his M.A. in mathematics and taught as a lecturer in mathematics at the Government College University where he stayed there till 1960. Rashid then travelled to United Kingdom in 1961 to attend Imperial College London.

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