Mohammad Qadir Hussain

Mohammad Qadir Hussain
Born	Karachi, Sindh Province
Residence	Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory
Citizenship	Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistani
Fields	Nuclear and Reactor Physics
Institutions	Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)
Known for	Pakistan's nuclear deterrent program Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Technology

Dr. Mohammad Qadir Hussain is a Pakistani nuclear physicist who specialized in High-energy nuclear physics and nuclear reactor physics. He is the former employee of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) who has claimed that the process using by PAEC to enrich uranium was developed and discovered by him during his stay at the Atomic Energy Agency where he worked as a senior researcher in the field of enriched uranium. Pakistan is thought by some to be using the gas centrifuge method which is believed to be currently being use at its nuclear laboratories.^[1]

Patent claim by Dr. Qadir

On May 23, 1995 the United States Patent Office issued a patent titled "Centrifuge process to separate the isotopes of uranium hexafluoride" to Dr. Qadir in which it was acknowledged by the Patent Office that method gives a complete istopic separation of U-235 from U-238 with a purity of almost 100% in a single stage. Details of this patent can be seen at the web site of the Patent Office under patent number 5,417,944.

According to Dawn Wire Service, a leading Pakistani newspaper, in its 24 August 1995 issue, '"The government of Pakistan recently put Dr. M.Q. Hussain on the Exit Control List and he is not allowed to travel abroad to pursue the patent he has been granted by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Patent and Trademark Office. The grant of the patent to Dr. Hussain means that his process was genuine and Pakistan is using the same process for the enrichment of uranium. Dr. Hussain is due for a massive compensation, US legal experts say.

The Dawn News wrote further that:

"It may create an embarrassing situation for the PAEC as well as Abdul Qadeer Khan. If Dr. Hussain could prove that his process was actually being used by Pakistani nuclear establishments".

It is not yet clear whether Dr. Hussain would be allowed to sell his invention to private consumers in the United States or abroad, since it relates to sensitive nuclear materials. After this incident, Mohammad Q. Hussian is put under strict restriction and he is not allowed to travel anywhere. He has also been monitored closely by the Government of Pakistan. This patent (number 5,417,944) was offered for sale in 1997,^[2] by a person identified as "Muhammad Q. Husain" residing at 37-A Elliot Place, Smithtown, NY.

See also

• Abdul Qadeer Khan

References

1. ^ , A-Z Encyclopedia,, [1] 
2. ^ http://www.uspto.gov/go/og/1997/week32/patlics.htm

External links

• US Patent Office's Web Site
• Patents Available For License or Sale
• Dawn Wire Service

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