Fazlul Halim Chowdhury

Fazlul Halim Chowdhury
Fazlul Halim Chowdhury

Professor Fazlul Halim Chowdhury (1 August 1930 – 9 April 1996) was the longest-serving (1976-1983) Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University, Bangladesh. Born on 1 August 1930 to a respectable family of Comilla Chouddagram, his father the late Abdul Aziz Chowdhurywas a graduate from Aligarh University, and an educationist who served as a Teacher of Government High School and later as an Inspector of schools. Professor Chowdhury's mother late Afifa Khatun, a highly devoted and committed woman to the cause of education was widely known in the then village of Chouddagram. He was a fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences [1]

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Important positions held

  • Vice Chancellor, University of Dhaka, 1976-1983
  • Senior Advisor in Basic Sciences, UNESCO, New Delhi, 1985-1990
  • Member, University Grants Commission (UGC), 1974- 1976
  • President, Bangladesh Chemical Society, 1984-86
  • Fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences [2]
  • President, The Rajshahi University Teachers Association
  • Dean, Faculty of Science, Rajshahi University
  • Provost, Abdul Latif Hall, Rajshahi University

Academic

  • Ph.D., Manchester University, UK (Thesis entitled “ The Acid Behaviour of Carboxylic Derivatives, 5th July, 1956) Awarded “Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851” to pursue Ph.D. studies.
  • M.Sc., Department of Chemistry, University of Dhaka, First in the First Class, 1951
  • B.Sc. (Hons), Department of Chemistry, University of Dhaka, First in the First Class
  • H.S.C., Comilla Victoria College, 1947.
  • S.S.C, Noakhali R.K. Zilla H.E. School, 1945.

Teaching

  • Lecturer, 1952-53; Assistant Professor, 1956-58, Department of Chemistry, Dhaka University.
  • Professor, Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry, Rajshahi University, 1958-1990

Fellowship

  • Nuffield Fellow, Cambridge University, U.K. 1960-62
  • Commonwealth Senior Fellow, Cambridge University, U.K. 1973-74.
  • Senior Researcher, American Association for the Advancement of Science Washington D.C., Asia Foundation Fellowship, 1984

Founder chairperson

  • Department of Applied Chemistry,Rajshahi University
  • Asia Pacific University, Dhaka (1995-96)

Area of Research

He made pioneering contribution to the development of Physical Chemists in the country. Published over 20 articles. Major fields: Physical Chemistry of cellulose fibers (of jute in particular) and polyelectrolytes; and the Physical Chemistry of proteins. Guided number of Ph.D. theses.

References

  1. ^ List of Fellows of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
  2. ^ List of Fellows of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences

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