Dr Chowdhury Sajjadul Karim, nuclear physicist and a former advisor to a caretaker government, is dead.
The former Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission chairman, widely acclaimed by colleagues for his professional qualities, was 67.
He breathed his last at a hospital in Dhaka at 10:40pm on Friday, his nephew Syed Minhaj told bdnews24.com.
His son Shabab Karim said he had suffered from pneumonia for a week.
The former Bangladesh Physical Society president was an international nuclear inspector for the Vienna-based global watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency.
He advised the Fakhruddin Ahmed-led caretaker government on agriculture issues.
He had a brief stint as Science Editor with bdnews24.com before being pulled into the position with the caretaker government.
But, despite his busy schedule, he continued to be with bdnews24.com and attended its events regularly; indeed, he launched the Tech page of Bangladesh’s largest news publisher in 2007.
Dr CS Karim, an expert on nuclear power and energy, had also served on national committees formulating energy and power policies.
He co-authored the national energy policy in the 1990s.Shabab said his father was admitted to Bangladesh Medical College Hospital on Thursday night when his condition deteriorated.
“He had been on life support in the ICU after he had suffered heart attack on Friday night,” he said.
Dr CS Karim was born at his mother’s ancestral home at Chiitagong’s Mirsarai on Jan 7, 1948.
He had to change schools several times as his judge father was transferred from one district to another.
After clearing school certificate examinations in 1964, he studied physics at the Dhaka University.
He received his PhD and post-doctorate degrees on nuclear physics from Russia.
He is praised for his visits up and down Bangladesh in an attempt to raise farm production during his time as the caretaker government advisor.
Source: bdnews24