Prof Munirul Islam passes away

Prof Muhammad Munirul Islam, a noted physicist, passed away peacefully at his home in Dhaka on Friday.

A professor of physics at the University of Connecticut, USA, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society and retired as Professor Emeritus in 2007.

Born in Chattogram in 1936, Prof Islam was a Kali Narayan Scholar of Dhaka University and received his doctorate from Imperial College, London.

His lifelong research focused on developing a theoretical model for the structure of the proton, which is being evaluated by Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN, Geneva.