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[ 0 => '|awards = [[Ekushey Padak]] (2001) ', 1 => ''''Jamal Nazrul Islam''' (24 February 1939 – 16 March 2013) was a [[Bangladesh]]i [[mathematical physicist]] and [[cosmologist]]. He was a professor at [[University of Chittagong]], a member of the advisory board at [[Shahjalal University of Science and Technology]] and a member of the syndicate at [[Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cuet.ac.bd/syndicate.php |title=Syndicate of CUET |publisher=Cuet.ac.bd |date= |accessdate=2013-03-17}}</ref> He also served as the director of the Research Center for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (RCMPS) at the University of Chittagong, [[Chittagong]], Bangladesh.', 2 => false, 3 => '==Early life and education==', 4 => 'Islam was born on 24 February 1939 in [[Jhenaidah District|Jhenaidah]], [[East Bengal]]. His father, Khan Bahadur Sirajul Islam, was a sub-judge in [[British India]]. Due to his father's job Islam spent his early school years in [[Calcutta]]. He studied at Chittagong Collegiate School until class ix and then he went to Lawrence College in Marit, [[West Pakistan]] to pass the [[Senior Cambridge]] and [[Senior Cambridge|Higher Senior Cambridge]] exams. He received a [[Bachelor of science|BSc degree]] from [[St. Xavier's College, Calcutta|St. Xavier's College]] at the [[University of Calcutta]]. In 1959, he got his Honors in Functional Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from [[Cambridge University]]. He completed his Masters in 1960. A student of the Trinity College, he finished the [[Cambridge Mathematical Tripos|Mathematical Tripos]]. Islam obtained his [[PhD]] in [[applied mathematics]] and [[theoretical physics]] from [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] in 1968, followed by a [[DSc]] in 1982.<ref>http://www.eaward.org.bd/eaward_new/PDF/16-84-90-Science.pdf</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ias-worldwide.org/profiles/prof48.htm |title=Prof. Jamal Nazrul-Islam |publisher=Ias-worldwide.org |date=1939-02-24 |accessdate=2013-03-21}}</ref>', 5 => false, 6 => '==Academic career==', 7 => 'Islam worked in the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy (later amalgamated to [[Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge]]) from 1967 until 1971. Later he worked as a researcher in [[California Institute of Technology]] and [[University of Washington]]. During 1973-1974 he served as the faculty of Applied Mathematics of [[King's College London]]. In 1978 he then joined the faculty of [[City University London]] until he returned to Chittagong in 1984. Until his death he served as [[Professor Emeritus]] at the University of Chittagong.', 8 => false, 9 => 'His research areas include [[Applied Mathematics]], [[Theoretical Physics]], [[Mathematical Physics]], theory of [[Gravitation]], [[General Relativity]], Mathematical [[Cosmology]] and [[Quantum Field Theory]]. Islam authored/coauthored/edited more than 50 scientific articles, books and some popular articles published in various scientific journals. Besides this he has also written books in [[Bengali language|Bengali]]. Particularly noteworthy are ''Black Hole'', published from the [[Bangla Academy]], “The Mother Tongue, Scientific Research and other Articles” and “Art, Literature and Society”. The latter two are compilations.', 10 => false, 11 => '==Fellowship==', 12 => '*[[Third World Academy of Science]] Trieste. Fellow elected in 1985.', 13 => '*[[Cambridge Philosophical Society]]. ', 14 => '*[[Royal Astronomical Society]].', 15 => '*[http://www.bas.org.bd Bangladesh Academy of Science]. ', 16 => '*[[Islamic World Academy of Sciences|Islamic Academy of Sciences]].', 17 => false, 18 => '==Death==', 19 => 'Islam died on 16 March 2013 in Chittagong, Bangladesh.<ref name=Death>{{cite web|url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/03/16/jamal-nazrul-islam-passes-away |title=Jamal Nazrul Islam dies at 74 |publisher=bdnews24.com |date= |accessdate=2013-03-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.banglanews24.com/English/detailsnews.php?nssl=a63d7b428cb5ff3fb13a9f7bfdf385e0&nttl=1603201365977 |title=Prof Jamal Nazrul Islam passes away |publisher=Banglanews24.com |date=1939-02-24 |accessdate=2013-03-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Star Online Report |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/eminent-scientist-prof-jamal-nazrul-islam-passes-away/ |title=Prof Jamal Nazrul Islam passes away |publisher=The Daily Star |date= |accessdate=2013-03-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=নিজস্ব প্রতিবেদক, চট্টগ্রাম&nbsp; বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম |url=http://bangla.bdnews24.com/bangladesh/article602613.bdnews |title=অধ্যাপক জামাল নজরুল ইসলাম আর নেই - bdnews24.com |publisher=Bangla.bdnews24.com |date= |accessdate=2013-03-17}}</ref>', 20 => false, 21 => '==Award==', 22 => '* [[Ekushey Padak]] (2001)', 23 => '* Gold award from [http://www.bas.org.bd Bangladesh Academy of Science] (Senior group)(1985)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bas.org.bd/awards/gold-medal-award.html |title=Academy Gold Medal Award |publisher=Bas.org.bd |date= |accessdate=2013-03-21}}</ref>', 24 => '* Medal Lecture award from [[Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze]] (1998)', 25 => '* Razzak-Shamsun Lifetime Achievement Award in Physics, 2011 from the [[University of Dhaka]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~nahar/RazzaqShamsunPhysicsResearch.html |title=786 |publisher=Astronomy.ohio-state.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-03-21}}</ref><ref>http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~nahar/rsphys/rsphyslife-jnislam.pdf</ref>', 26 => false, 27 => '==Selected Publications==', 28 => false, 29 => '===Books Authored/Coauthored/Edited===', 30 => '*Islam, J.N. (1983): ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=uJj2M46T5r8C&source=gbs_similarbooks The Ultimate Fate of the Universe]''. [[Cambridge University Press]], [[Cambridge]], [[England]]. ISBN 978-0-521-11312-0. (Digital print version published in 2009).', 31 => '*Bonnor, W.B., Islam, J.N., MacCallum, M.A.H. (eds.)(1983): ''[http://books.google.com/books/about/Classical_General_Relativity.html?id=wAA9AAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y Classical General Relativity: Proceedings of the Conference on Classical (Non-Quantum) General Relativity]'', [[Cambridge University Press]], [[Cambridge]], [[England]]. ISBN 0-521-26747-1.', 32 => '*Islam, J.N. (1985): ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Imgt65L6LYAC&source=gbs_similarbooks Rotating Fields in General Relativity]'', [[Cambridge University Press]], [[Cambridge]], [[England]]. [http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2427124/?site_locale=en_GB ISBN 978-0-521-11311-3]. (Digital print version published in 2009).', 33 => '*Islam, J.N. (1992, 2nd edition 2001): ''[http://books.google.com/books/about/An_Introduction_to_Mathematical_Cosmolog.html?id=IHuev7p7omUC&redir_esc=y An Introduction to Mathematical Cosmology]'', [[Cambridge University Press]], [[Cambridge]], [[England]]. ISBN 0-521-49973-9.', 34 => false, 35 => '===Scholarly Articles===', 36 => '*Islam, J.N.: Modified Mandelstam Representation for Heavy Particles. ''[[J. Math. Phys.]]'' '''3''', 1098-1106 (1962). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1703852 10.1063/1.1703852]', 37 => '*Islam, J.N.: Acnodes and Cusps and the Mandelstam Representation. ''[[J. Math. Phys.]]'' '''4''', 872-878 (1963). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1704012 10.1063/1.1704012]', 38 => '*Islam, J.N., Kim, Y.S.: Analytic Property of Three-Body Unitarity Integral. ''[[Phys. Rev.]]'' '''138''', B1222–B1229 (1965). DOI:[http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.138.B1222 10.1103/PhysRev.138.B1222]', 39 => '*Islam, J.N.: Leading Landau Curves of a Class of Feynman Diagrams. ''[[J. Math. Phys.]]'' '''7''', 652-660 (1966). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1704978 10.1063/1.1704978]', 40 => '*Islam, J.N.: Green Function Formulation of the Dirac Field in Curved Space. ''[http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/ Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A]'' '''294''', 437-448 (1966). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1966.0217 10.1098/rspa.1966.0217]', 41 => '*Islam, J.N.: Field Equations in the Neighbourhood of a Particle in a Conformal Theory of Gravitation. ''[http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/ Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A]'' '''306''', 487-501 (1968). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1968.0163 10.1098/rspa.1968.0163]', 42 => '*Islam, J.N.: Field Equations in the Neighbourhood of a Particle in a Conformal Theory of Gravitation. II. ''[http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/ Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A]'' '''313''', 71-82 (1969). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1969.0180 10.1098/rspa.1969.0180]', 43 => '*Islam, J.N.: Some general relativistic inequalities for a star in hydrostatic equilibrium. [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1969MNRAS.145...21I ''Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.'' '''145''', 21-29 (1969)].', 44 => '*Islam, J.N.: Some general relativistic inequalities for a star in hydrostatic equilibrium-II. [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970MNRAS.147..377I ''Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.'' '''147''', 377-386 (1970)].', 45 => '*Islam, J.N.: A class of approximate exterior rotating solutions of Einstein's equations. ''[[Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society|Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc.]]'' '''79''', 161-166 (1976). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305004100052178 10.1017/S0305004100052178]', 46 => '*Islam, J.N.: On the existence of a general rotating solution of Einstein's equations. ''[[General Relativity and Gravitation|Gen. Relativ. Gravit.]]'' '''7''', 809-815 (1976) DOI:[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00778760 10.1007/BF00778760]', 47 => '*Islam, J.N.: A class of approximate stationary solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations. ''[[General Relativity and Gravitation|Gen. Relativ. Gravit.]]'' 7, 669-680 (1976). DOI:[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00770723 10.1007/BF00770723]', 48 => '*Islam, J.N.: Possible Ultimate Fate of the Universe. [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1977QJRAS..18....3I ''Quart. J. R. Astron. Soc.'' '''18''', 3-8 (1977)].', 49 => '*Islam, J.N.: On the static field in general relativity. ''[[Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society|Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc.]]'' '''81''', 485-496 (1977). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305004100053548 10.1017/S0305004100053548]', 50 => '*Islam, J.N.: On the static field in general relativity: II. ''[[Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society|Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc.]]'' '''83''', 299-306 (1978). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305004100054566 10.1017/S0305004100054566]', 51 => '*Islam, J.N.: On the stationary axisymmetric Einstein-Maxwell equations. ''[[General Relativity and Gravitation|Gen. Relativ. Gravit.]]'' '''9''', 687-690 (1978). DOI:[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00760140 10.1007/BF00760140]', 52 => '*Islam, J.N.: A Class of Exact Interior Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell Equations. ''[http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/ Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A]'' '''353''', 523-531 (1977). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1977.0048 10.1098/rspa.1977.0048]', 53 => '*Islam, J.N.: The Ultimate Fate of the Universe. ''[[Sky & Telescope]]'' '''57''', 13-18 (1979).', 54 => '*Islam, J.N.: The long-term future of the universe. ''[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00836656 Vistas in Astronomy]'' '''23''', 265–277 (1979). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0083-6656(79)90014-X 10.1016/0083-6656(79)90014-X]', 55 => '*Islam, J.N.: Recently Found Solution of Einstein's Equations. ''[[Phys. Rev. Lett.]]'' '''43''', 601-602 (1979) DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.601 10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.601]', 56 => '*Islam, J.N.: The Far Future of the Universe. ''[http://www.journals.elsevier.com/endeavour/ Endeavour]'', '''8''', 32-34 (1984). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0160-9327(84)90127-3 10.1016/0160-9327(84)90127-3]', 57 => '*Islam, J.N.: On Rotating Charged Dust in General Relativity. ''[http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/ Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A]'' '''362''', 329-340 (1978). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1978.0136 10.1098/rspa.1978.0136]', 58 => '*Islam, J.N.: On Rotating Charged Dust in General Relativity. II. ''[http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/ Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A]'' '''367''', 71-280 (1979). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1979.0087 10.1098/rspa.1979.0087]', 59 => '*Islam, J.N.: On Rotating Charged Dust in General Relativity. III. ''[http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/ Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A]'' '''372''', 111-115 (1980). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1980.0104 10.1098/rspa.1980.0104]', 60 => '*Islam, J.N.: On rotating charged dust in general relativity. IV. ''[http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/ Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A]'' '''385''', 189-205 (1983). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1983.0010 10.1098/rspa.1983.0010]', 61 => '*Islam, J.N.: On Rotating Charged Dust in General Relativity. V. ''[http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/ Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A]'' '''389''', 291-298 (1983). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1983.0110 10.1098/rspa.1983.0110]', 62 => '*Islam, J.N., Schutz, B.F.: Motion of primordial black holes in the early universe and their likely distribution today. ''[[General Relativity and Gravitation|Gen. Relativ. Gravit.]]'' '''12''', 881-893 (1980). DOI:[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00757357 10.1007/BF00757357]', 63 => '*Islam, J.N.: The cosmological constant and classical tests of general relativity. ''[[Physics Letters|Phys. Lett. A]]'' '''97''', 239–241 (1983). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(83)90756-9 10.1016/0375-9601(83)90756-9]', 64 => '*Boachie, L. A., Islam, J.N.: On a certain solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations. ''[[Physics Letters|Phys. Lett. A]]'' '''93''', 321–322 (1983). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(83)90107-X 10.1016/0375-9601(83)90107-X]', 65 => '*Islam, J.N.: Closed form for Van Stockum interior solution of Einstein's equations. ''[[Physics Letters|Phys. Lett. A]]'' '''94''', 421–423 (1983). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(83)90843-5 10.1016/0375-9601(83)90843-5]', 66 => '*Islam, J.N., Bergh, N. V. d., Wils, P.: General solutions for axisymmetric differentially rotating charged dust with vanishing Lorentz force. ''[[Classical and Quantum Gravity|Class. Quant. Grav.]]'' '''1''', 705-714 (1984) DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/1/6/014 10.1088/0264-9381/1/6/014]', 67 => '*Islam, J.N.: On Yang-Mills Theory in the Temporal Gauge. ''[http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/ Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A]'' '''421''', 279-301 (1989). DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1989.0012 10.1098/rspa.1989.0012]', 68 => '*Islam, J.N.: Schrödinger Functional Equation for Yang-Mills Theory. ''[[Progress of Theoretical Physics|Prog. Theor. Phys.]]'' '''89''', 161-185 (1993) Link 1 DOI:[http://ptp.oxfordjournals.org/content/89/1/161.abstract 10.1143/ptp/89.1.161] Link 2 DOI:[http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTP/89/161/ 10.1143/ptp/89.1.161]', 69 => '*Islam, J.N.: The Schrödinger equation in quantum field theory. ''[[Foundations of Physics|Found. Phys.]]'' '''24''', 593-630 (1994). DOI:[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02054667 10.1007/BF02054667]', 70 => '*Azad, A.K., Islam, J.N.: Cosmological constant in the Bianchi type-I-modified Brans-Dicke cosmology. ''Pramana J. Phys.'' '''60''', 21-27 (2003). DOI:[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02705065 10.1007/BF02705065]', 71 => '*Islam, M.A., Islam, J.N.: Anharmonic solution of Schrödinger time-independent equation. ''Pramana J. Phys.'' '''77''', 243-261 (2011). DOI:[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12043-011-0101-8 10.1007/s12043-011-0101-8]', 72 => '*Firoz, K.A., Moon, Y.-J., Park, S.-H., Kudela, K., Islam, J.N., Dorman, L. I.: On the Possible Mechanisms of Two Ground-level Enhancement Events. ''[[ApJ]]'' '''743''', 190 (18pp) (2011) DOI:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/743/2/190 10.1088/0004-637X/743/2/190]', 73 => '*Panna, N., Islam, J.N.: Construction of an Exact Solution of Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau Equations by Standard Integral for Front Propagation in Superconductors. ''Science Journal Of Mathematics and Statistics'' '''2012''', Article ID sjms-101, 4 Pages, (2012). DOI:[http://www.sjpub.org/sjms/abstract/sjms-101.html 10.7237/sjms/101]', 74 => '*Panna, N., Islam, J.N.: Construction of an exact solution of time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations and determination of the superconducting-normal interface propagation speed in superconductors. Interaction of Lasers with Atoms, Molecules and Clusters University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 9–12 January 2012. (Forthcoming)', 75 => false, 76 => '==References==', 77 => '{{Reflist}}', 78 => false, 79 => '==External links==', 80 => '*[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?return_req=no_params&author=Islam,%20J.%20N.&db_key=AST SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)]', 81 => '* [http://twas.ictp.it/mbrs/mbrs/mbrs-list TWAS membership]', 82 => '* [http://www.iasworld.org/html/profiles/71.html Islamic World Academy of Sciences]', 83 => '* [http://www.bangladeshchronicle.net/index.php/2013/03/jamal-nazrul-islam-1939-2013/ Jamal Nazrul Islam (1939-2013)]', 84 => '* [http://www.newagebd.com/detail.php?date=2013-03-23&nid=43804#.UVGmwTcVi-Y My memories of Jamal Nazrul Islam]', 85 => '* [http://avatar.cnn.com/docs/DOC-944146 Famous South Asian physicist, cosmologist J N Islam died]', 86 => '* [http://www.newagebd.com/detail.php?date=2013-03-25&nid=44024#.UVG01TcVi-Y Professor Jamal Nazrul Islam — as I saw him]', 87 => '* [http://opinion.bdnews24.com/2013/03/17/jamal-nazrul-islam-the-passionate-learner/ Jamal Nazrul Islam: The passionate learner]', 88 => '* [http://www1.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=319507&date=2013-03-16 Life sketch of Prof Jamal Nazrul Islam ]', 89 => false, 90 => '{{Scientists of Bangladesh}}', 91 => '{{Authority control|VIAF=94704178}}', 92 => false, 93 => '{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->', 94 => '| NAME = Islam, Jamal Nazrul', 95 => '| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =', 96 => '| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Bangladeshi mathematician', 97 => '| DATE OF BIRTH = 24 February 1939', 98 => '| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Jhenaidah]], [[Bangladesh]]', 99 => '| DATE OF DEATH = 16 March 2013', 100 => '| PLACE OF DEATH = [[Chittagong]], [[Bangladesh]]', 101 => '}}', 102 => '{{DEFAULTSORT:Islam, Jamal Nazrul}}', 103 => '[[Category:Bangladeshi physicists]]', 104 => '[[Category:Bengali physicists]]', 105 => '[[Category:Bengali mathematicians]]', 106 => '[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]', 107 => '[[Category:1939 births]]', 108 => '[[Category:2013 deaths]]', 109 => '[[Category:Fellows of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences]]', 110 => '[[Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge]]', 111 => '[[Category:People from Chittagong]]', 112 => '[[Category:Recipients of the Ekushey Padak]]', 113 => '[[Category:Shahjalal University of Science and Technology faculty]]' ]