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SHAWSVILLE - Mujaddid A.
Ijaz, age 54 of 2236 Archer Road, died Thursday, July 9, 1992, at his home.
He is survived by his wife, Lubna R. Ijaz; four
sons, Mansoor M. Ijaz, Manhattan, N.Y.; Farouk A. Ijaz,
Charlotte, N.C.; Atif J.
Ijaz, Akron, Ohio; Moui I. Ijaz, Dearborn, Mich.;
one daughter, Neelam R. Ijaz, Shawsville; and seven grandchildren. Funeral
services will be conducted on Friday, July 17, at the Ijaz
Cemetery. The family will
receive friends from 7:00 until 9:00 Monday evening at the Richardson-Horne
Funeral Home. The family will also receive friends from 7:00 until 9:00 on
Wednesday and Thursday
evenings, July 14 and 15,
at the residence on Archer Rd. Anyone wishing to contact the family may do
so by calling them at 703-382-7773. Arrangements are being handled by the
Richardson-Horne Funeral
Home, Christiansburg.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Mujaddid
Ahmed Ijaz, Ph.D. (Urdu: مجدد احمد
اعجا ز; June 12, 1937— July 9, 1992),
was a Pakistani-American experimental physicist noted
for his role in discovering new isotopes[1] that expanded the
neutron-deficient
side of the atomic chart. Some of
the isotopes he discovered enabled significant advances in medical research,
particularly in the treatment of cancer, and further advanced the
experimental
understanding
of nuclear structures.[2][3] Ijaz conducted his research work
at Oak
Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL).[4] He and his ORNL colleagues
published more than 60 papers in physics journals announcing
isotope
discoveries and other results of their accelerator experiments from 1968 until
1983.[5]
Ijaz participated in the U.S. Atoms for Peace initiative
during the 1970s.[4] The program provided a number of
third-world countries, including Pakistan, with civilian nuclear reactor
technology to develop energy
for
peaceful purposes.[6] As a tenured professor of Physics
at Virginia Tech, he
acted as thesis adviser to graduate students from around the world in
experimental physics disciplines. Ijaz made extensive trips abroad
during
his career, including sabbaticals as a visiting professor at Saudi
Arabia's King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.[7][8] in the early 1980s and as a
visiting faculty member at the
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical
Physics in Trieste, Italy in 1985. He retired Professor
Emeritus of Physics from Virginia Tech in December 1991
after a 27-year career in teaching and research.[5]
Ijaz
and his wife emigrated to the United States and settled in Virginia, where
they had five children. He died in 1992 after a battle with cancer.
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