Kamaluddin Ahmad

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Kamaluddin Ahmad is a Bangladeshi academic often called Bangladesh's "father of biochemistry and nutrition". [1] In the 1960s, he undertook a countrywide nutrition survey after which he introduced vitamin A capsules and iodine in salt. [1] He was the founding head of the department of Biochemistry at the University of Dhaka. [2]

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Early life

Ahmad was born on 21 December 1921 in Gohira, Chittagong District, East Bengal, British India. [1] He completed his bachelor's degree and masters in chemistry at the University of Dhaka in 1943 and 1944 respectively. [1] [3] In 1949, he finished his PhD at the University of Wisconsin. [1]

Career

Ahmad joined the University of Dhaka where he established the Department of Biochemistry in 1957. [1] He was awarded the Pakistan Academy gold medal in Physical Sciences. [3] He received a Research fellowship from the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. [3] He received the Commonwealth Travelling fellowship and taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, Tufts University, University of Wisconsin, University of Lincoln, and the University of Calcutta. [3] He was the chairman of the Committee on Nutrition Survey and Surveillance of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences. [3] In 1960, he was made a fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. [3]

Ahmad received the Tamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam and Sitara-i-Khidmat from the government of Pakistan. [3] He received the Sonali Bank Gold Medal from the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. [3] He was the chairman of the Scientific Research Committee, Research Review Committee, and Ethical Review Committee of the International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. [3] He was the chairperson of the Standing Technical Committee of Bangladesh National Nutrition Council. [3] He is a former president of the Bangladesh Association for the Advancement of Science. [3]

Ahmad established the Department of Pharmacy and Institute of Nutrition and Food Science in 1964 and 1969 respectively. [1] In the 1960s, he performed the first nutrition survey of East Pakistan. [3] From 1969 to 1971, he was the Vice-Chancellor of the Bangladesh Agricultural University. He performed further surveys in Bangladesh in the 1970s and 1980s. [3] He was a syndicate board member of Bangladesh Agricultural University, Jahangirnagar University, and the University of Chittagong. [3]

Ahmad retired from the University of Dhaka in 1984. [1] He established Bangladesh Institute of Herbal Medicine, Nutrition and Social Development located in Savar Upazila. [1] In 1996, he established the Centre for Biomedical Research at the University of Dhaka. [1] He was one the founders of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences and had served as its president. [1] He was a fellow of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, The World Academy of Sciences, and the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. [3]

Death

Ahmad died on 4 July 2004. [1]

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