M. A.

Wazed Miah
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M A Wazed Miah

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Dr. M A Wazed Miah (on the right) at the BAESA meeting in 1997

Born 16 February 1942

Fatehpur, Pirganj, Rangpur District, British India

Died 9 May 2009 (aged 67)

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Resting place Pirganj, Rangpur, Bangladesh

Education PhD (Physics)

Alma mater University of Dhaka (1962)

Durham University (1967)

Occupation Nuclear scientist

Sheikh Hasina (m. 1967)
Spouse(s)

Children Sajeeb Wazed

Saima Wazed
 Relatives See Sheikh–Wazed family

M. A. Wazed Miah (6 February 1942 – 9 May 2009) was a Bangladeshi nuclear

scientist, the writer of a number of texts in physics and some political history books, a
former Chairman of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission and husband of Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Contents

 1Early life
 2Political career
 3Professional career
 4Personal life
 5Death
 6Legacy
 7Publications
 8References

Early life[edit]
Wazed Miah was born on 16 February 1942 in the village of Fatehpur (Miah Bari)
at Pirganj, Rangpur District. His father was Abdul Quader Miah and mother was
Moyzunnessa.[1] He was the youngest among three sisters and four brothers. To get the
best education, from Class Five he was sent to board at Rangpur Zila School, from
where he ultimately passed Matriculation in First Division with Distinction.
After passing the HSC exam, in 1958, he followed in the footsteps of his eldest sister's
son, physicist Abdul Qayyum Sarker, and took admittance into the Department
of Physics, Dhaka University. In 1961 he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in
physics and in 1962 he finished his Master of Science. [1] He completed the Diploma
of Imperial College London Course in 1963–64 from Imperial College London, London.
[1]
 In 1967 he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics from Durham
University, England. His thesis was on bootstrap hypothesis in theoretical particle
physics, and he worked under professor E.J. Squires.

Political career[edit]
From 1961 to 1962 he was the Vice-President of the Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall unit East
Pakistan Muslim Chhatra League (currently known as Bangladesh Chhatra League)
at University of Dhaka. He was arrested for movement against education commission
and was imprisoned in 1962. He never played any active official role in the Awami
League after his marriage to Sheikh Hasina.

Professional career[edit]
Miah joined in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission on 1 April 1963. [1] In 1969 Miah
got the Associate-ship of Italy-based International Centre for Theoretical Physics of
Pakistani Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam. In the same year, he returned home
to Pakistan and continued with the Atomic Energy Research Centre. [1] He was engaged
in research work at the New Delhi-based laboratory of Atomic Energy Commission of
India during 1975–1982, during the period of exile of the remainder of the Mujib family
after the bloody coup of 15 August 1975. After his return to Bangladesh, he joined the
Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, and eventually retired as its chairman in 1999.

Personal life[edit]
Miah married Sheikh Hasina, eldest daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman on 17 November 1967.[2] They have a son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and a
daughter Saima Wazed Putul.[3]

Death[edit]
Miah died on 9 May 2009. He had for long suffered from high blood pressure, heart
disease, kidney failure, diabetes, and asthma. He had a bypass operation a few years
earlier and an angioplasty in Singapore only a few months before his death. He was
buried at a family graveyard in his native village at Pirganj, Rangpur.[4]

Legacy[edit]
A science building in Rajshahi University previously named as 4th Science Building is
recently renamed after him as Dr. M Wazed Miah Academic Building. A science and
technology building is named after him in Shahjalal University of Science and
Technology.[5] An academic building is built in his memory in Hajee Mohammad Danesh
Science and Technology University.[6]

Publications[edit]
 Fundamentals Of Thermodynamics by MA Wazed Miah
(University Press, Dhaka, 1988)
 Fundamentals of Electromagnetics by MA Wazed Miah
(Tata-McGraw-Hill, 1982)
 Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibke Ghire Kichhu Ghatana O
Bangladesh (A Bangla Memoirs)
 Bangladesher Rajniti O Sarkarer Chalchitra (A Bangla
Memoirs)

References[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to:          "Life sketch of Wazed Miah". The Daily Star.
a b c d e

Retrieved 10 February 2016.
 2. ^ "Scientist Wazed Miah remembered". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 10
February  2016.
3. ^ "Rangpur AL wants Joy to contest from Pirganj-6". The Daily Star.
Retrieved 10 February 2016.
4. ^ "Wazed Miah Is Dead".  independent-bangladesh.com. Bangladesh
News. Retrieved  10 February  2016.
5. ^ "CSE Carnival' begins at SUST".  bdnews24.com. Retrieved  10
February  2016.
6. ^ "Hasina rejects BNP's formula". The Daily Star. Retrieved 10
February  2016.

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