| Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy
Dr. Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy is professor of nuclear and high energy physics and teaches at the School of Science and Engineering (LUMS, Lahore) as well as at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and remains an active physicist who often lectures at U.S. and European research laboratories and universities. Dr. Hoodbhoy received the Baker Award for Electronics and the Abdus Salam Prize for Mathematics.
Over a period of 25 years, Dr. Hoodbhoy created and anchored a series of television programs that dissected the problems of Pakistan’s education system, and two other series that aimed at bringing scientific concepts to ordinary members of the public. He is the author of Islam and Science - Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, now in 7 languages. As the head of Mashal Books in Lahore, he leads a major translation effort to produce books in Urdu that promote modern thought, human rights, and the emancipation of women. In 2003 he was awarded UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science.
Over the years, he produced and directed several documentary films dealing with political, nuclear, and scientific matters. In 2010, he received the Joseph A. Burton Award from the American Physical Society and the Jean Meyer Award from Tufts University.
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