Ghulam Dastagir Alam

Ghulam Dastagir Alam Qasmi
Dr. G.D Alam (right)
Born	1937 Faridabad, Punjab, British India (Present-day in Haryana in India)
Died	5 December 2000 Nilore, ICT
Nationality	Pakistan
Citizenship	Pakistan
Alma mater	Government College University Punjab University University College London
Known for	Ultracentrifuge development Quantum Mechanics Ion Scattering Published work in Calculus, Fortran and abstract algebra
Awards	Hilal-e-Imtiaz (1983)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology University College London International Centre for Theoretical Physics Quaid-e-Azam University
Theses	Electron capture by multiply charged ions  (1967) Charge Transfer Collisions Involving Curve-Crossing (1967)
Doctoral advisor	J. B. Hasted
Other academic advisors	Abdus Salam Rafi Muhammad Harrie Massey

Ghulam Dastagir Alam Qasmi (Urdu: غلام دستگیر عالم قاسمی; popularly known as G.D. Alam; PhD, HI), was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and professor of mathematics at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Alam is best known for conceiving and embarking on research on the gas centrifuge during Pakistan's integrated atomic bomb project in the 1970s, and he also conceived the research on charge density, nuclear fission, and gamma-ray bursts throughout his career.^[1][2]

After the atomic bomb project, Alam joined the Department of Mathematics at the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) as well as serving as visiting faculty at the Institute of Physics, and co-authored papers on variation calculus and fission isomer. He was one of the notable theoretical physicists at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and QAU. At one point, his fellow theorist, Munir Ahmad Khan, called Alam "the problem solving brain of the PAEC".^{: 155 [3]}