Chaudhry Abdul Majeed
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| Born | 1937 Lahore, British Punjab, British Indian Empire |
| Died | Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Residence | Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Fields | Nuclear Chemistry |
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| Doctoral advisor | Jozeph Jørgen |
| Other academic advisors | Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry |
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Chaudhry Abdul Majeed (born:1937; Urdu: چودہری عبد لمجيد ) is a Pakistani nuclear chemist and a nuclear weapon and reactor expert. He is known as one of the pioneers of Pakistan's nuclear deterrent programme, and has worked closely with former PAEC Chairman Munir Ahmad Khan's plutonium reprocessing project. He rose to prominence when he was apprehended by Pakistan's intelligence agencies in a joint operation in late October 2001. Majeed was also one of the founding members of Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood's Ummah Tameer-e-Nau charity; an NGO which caused an international embarrassment for Pakistan.
Majeed was educated in Lahore, Punjab, British Indian Empire. In 1955, he attended University of Engineering and Technology of Lahore, and took his double B.Sc. in Mathematics and Chemistry in 1959. The same year, he was admitted to the High-Tension Laboratory, a physics department for advanced courses in Nuclear sciences, at the Government College University, where he gained his M.Sc. in Nuclear Chemistry. His 1962 master's thesis topic was "To study the characteristics of halogen counters". It was supervised by R. M. Chaudhry. He then joined the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and was assigned to the PAEC-Lahore Center under the directorship of Ishfaq Ahmad.
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