# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/riazuddin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:27:18.437Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/riazuddin"
name: "Riazuddin"
slug: "riazuddin"
description: "Riazuddin was a Pakistani theoretical physicist, specialising in high-energy physics and nuclear physics. He is considered one of the early pioneers of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development and atomic deterrence development. Starting his scientific research in 1958, he served as the director of the Theoretical Physics Group (TPG) of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 1974 until 1984. Riazuddin was a pupil of Abdus Salam, a Nobel laureate in Physics."
tagline: "Pakistani nuclear physicist (1930–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Riazuddin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-11-10"
deathDate: "2013-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           8.153133333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump