Abdul Qadeer Khan
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Abdul Qadeer Khan

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical scientist (born 1936)

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Died
2021 · October 10

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Who they were

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical scientist (born 1936)

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October 10 2021.

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