Facts and Figures
Designed by world-renowned American architect Edward Durell Stone, PINSTECH blends eastern elegance with western functionality. Construction of the Institute proceeded in two stages: In the first stage, reactor building and ancillary facilities were completed with the reactor becoming critical on 21 December 1965.
The second stage, consisting of various laboratories, workshop, library and auditorium, became operational in 1974. The PINSTECH Library is one of the most advanced library in the country. The scientific articles, magazines, and science literature are stocked in large numbers at the library. There is also a large section containing loaded historical references and literature on Manhattan Project, brough by Abdus Salam in 1971 prior to start of the Nuclear weapons programme under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The facility was last upgraded by PAEC chairman and noted nuclear scientist, Mr. Munir Ahmad Khan in 1989.
Read more about this topic: Pakistan Institute Of Nuclear Science And Technology
Famous quotes containing the words facts and/or figures:
“I’m not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called “scientific” mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.”
—Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)
“But that wasn’t fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
people they say Oh yes, they’re the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)