Khondkar Siddique-e-Rabbani

Khondkar Siddique-e-Rabbani
Rabbani in 2016
Born	(1950-05-09) 9 May 1950 (age 74)
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Alma mater	University of Dhaka Islamabad University University of Southampton
Scientific career
Fields	Medical physics

Khondkar Siddique-e-Rabbani (Bengali: খন্দকার সিদ্দিক-ই-রাব্বানী; born 9 May 1950) is a Bangladeshi Biomedical physicist and notable for developing the Focused Impedance Measurement method.^[1][2] In 2008, he was awarded the Academy Gold Medal by Bangladesh Academy of Sciences for his contribution to physical sciences in Bangladesh.^[3] Rabbani is the founding chairperson of the Department of Biomedical Physics and Technology (BMPT) at the University of Dhaka.

Education and career

Rabbani completed his bachelor's from University of Dhaka and master's from Islamabad University in 1970 and 1972 respectively.^[2] He then earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southampton in Microelectronics as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1978. He then joined as a faculty member of the Department of Physics at the University of Dhaka.^[2][4] In 2008, he became the first Chairperson of the post-graduate Department of Biomedical Physics and Technology at the University of Dhaka.^[5]

Works

Rabbani has been working to improve the condition of economically deprived people of Bangladesh through innovating low cost and easily accessible technologies. He had three major innovations cited by Bangladesh Academy of Sciences as, "A simple and low cost method to destroy diarrhoeal germs in water using solar radiation; Surface water free of Arsenic that can be made drinkable; a localised electrical impedance technique named ‘Focused Impedance Method (FIM), having the potential to study, diagnose or characterize medical conditions including lung, stomach and vascular functions and some cancers; a nerve conduction measurement technique ‘Distribution of F-latency, (DFL), that can give inner profile of conduction velocity of motor nerve fibres in a nerve trunk, for which no clinically suitable method existed before".^[2]

Awards

• Ibrahim Memorial Gold Medal Award^{[citation needed]}
• UGC Award (2007)^{[citation needed]}
• National Fellowship of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (1995)^{[citation needed]}
• Third World Academy of Science (TWAS) - BAS Gold Medal Award for Physical Sciences, Junior group (1990)^{[citation needed]}

References

1. Rabbani, KS; Sarker, M; Akond, MH; Akter, T (20 April 1999). "Focused impedance measurement (FIM). A new technique with improved zone localization". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 873 (1): 408–20. Bibcode:1999NYASA.873..408R. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb09490.x. PMID 10372184. S2CID 80628.
2. "BAS Gold Medal Award Ceremony 2011". Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
3. Dr. Khondkar Siddique-e-Rabbani gets the Academy Gold Medal Award Archived 2015-09-26 at the Wayback Machine from Bangladesh Academy of Sciences.
4. "TEDxDhaka: Dr. K. Siddique-e Rabbani - Innovating Healthcare Technology for the deprived 80%". TED. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
5. "Faculty Members List: Department of Biomedical Physics & Technology". University of Dhaka. Retrieved 8 June 2016.