N. M. Butt
| Noor Muhammad Butt | |
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| Born |
3 June 1936 Sialkot, British Punjab province, Present-day Pakistan |
| Citizenship | Pakistan |
| Nationality | Pakistan |
| Fields | Nuclear Physics |
| Institutions |
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology NUST International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) CERN and IAEA Preston Institute of Nano Science And Technology |
| Alma mater |
University of Punjab University of Birmingham |
| Doctoral advisor | Dr. Philip Burton Moon |
| Other academic advisors | Dr. Rudolf Peierls Dr. RM Chaudhry |
| Known for |
SSNTD Mossbauer Spectroscopy Mossbauer Effect |
| Notable awards | Sitara-i-Imtiaz(1992) |
Noor Muhammad Butt (Urdu: ڈاکٹر این ایم بٹ); b. 3 June 1936); SI, FPAS, best known as "Dr. N. M. Butt", is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and the chairman and professor of Nanotechnology at Preston Institute of Nano Science and Technology. He earned international prestige for his edge-leading research in neutron diffraction, and made important contributions to Mössbauer spectroscopy.
Noor Muhammad Butt was born in Sialkot, British Punjab, in 1936. Having completed his high-school from Sialkot, he completed his matriculation from Murray College, gaining a pre-science diploma from Murray College in 1950. In 1951, he attended Punjab University, majoring in applied physics and had received his BSc in Applied Physics from Punjab University in 1955.
The same year, he was accepted at the Government College, Lahore to do his Master's degree in physics. In 1957, he completed his Master of Science (MSc) with experimental specialisation in nuclear physics under the renowned nuclear physicist Professor Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry, the Head of the Department of Physics at the Government College University at that time. It was under Chaudhry's supervision that Butt studied nuclear physics and supervised Butts' master degree's thesis in experimental nuclear physics using the 1.2 MeV Cockcrof-Walton Nuclear Accelerator installed at the College. His master degree's thesis was written on "The nuclear reactions when the protons from this accelerator strike the nuclear target of lithium produce a nuclear reaction, breaking the atomic nucleus of lithium". After his master's degree, Butt joined Government College University as a lecturer in physics. He stayed there till 1960. In 1961, he won a Commonwealth Scholarship and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Scholarship to pursue his doctoral studies in Europe. On his mentors' advice, Butt travelled to the United Kingdom where he attended the University of Birmingham.
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