Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission
Main articles: Kirana Hills, Ras Koh Hills, and Chagai Hills See also: Chagai-I and Chagai-IIAhmad had been affiliated with the PAEC since 1960, initially working as a "senior scientist", a position he held until 1966. He was brought up as secretary of PAEC in 1967 and accepted the directorship of atomic energy center at Lahore in 1969. At PAEC, Ahmad closely collaborated with Abdus Salam, while independently working on the theories of proton decay and beta decay. He further engages his research in Path integral formulation (by using the methods of vector calculus). Ahmad later contributed in proton chain reaction, and built the first Ion track along with Naeem Ahmad Khan and Noor Muhammad Butt.
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