Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan

Known for

Led Pakistan's uranium enrichment programme at Kahuta

Biography

Pakistani metallurgical engineer born in Bhopal who moved to Pakistan in 1952 and worked in Europe before returning in 1976.

Contributions

• Set up the Engineering Research Laboratories at Kahuta (later Khan Research Laboratories)
• Led the gas-centrifuge uranium enrichment programme behind Pakistan's nuclear capability
• In 2004 confessed on television to sharing nuclear technology abroad and was later kept under restrictions