Nuclear Physics

Ali A. Abdulla is an emeritus professor of nuclear physics at the University of Baghdad, Iraq. He also taught at the University of Basrah and was a lecturer at the Mustansiriya University. He did his PhD work at Oklahoma State University in 1965-1968, and he also taught in 1967-1968. He first worked as a scientific researcher at an Iraqi nuclear research center (December 1968) then director of the institute (1970), and in 1975, he was appointed chairman of the physics department at Baghdad University. He used to teach all branches of physics, with the emphasis on teaching nuclear physics and quantum mechanics for graduate students. He supervised graduate research work for twentyfive years for both MS and PhD students in the field of nuclear physics. Also, he occupied a scientific directory to some important scientific institutions on the Arab-world level. He also used to have scientific relations with some United Nations scientific institutions. He published alone and, as a coauthor, about fifty papers in different international scientific journals. He published fifteen books in Physics and in general thoughts, in Arabic language. Currently, he lives in the United States as a permanent resident.