Ibrahim Umar (physicist)
Ibrahim Khalil Umar was a Nigerian scientist and university administrator. He was Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria from 1979 to 1986.[1] He holds a B.Sc. in physics and mathematics from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, a M.Sc. in physics from Northern Illinois University, USA and a Ph.D. (1974) in physics at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.[2] In 1976 he became the first Nigerian academic in physics to teach at Bayero University.[3] In 1978 he served on the national constitutional assembly that drafted the Constitution of the 2nd Republic.[4]
Between 1994 and 1997, Umar served as Sole Administrator of the Federal University of Technology, Minna.[5]
He represented Nigeria at the Executive Assembly of the World Energy Council from 1990. He was a member of the Nigerian delegation to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference from 1989 and was appointed Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria in 1989. He served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 2000 to 2001.[2] In 2004 he was the Director of the Centre for Energy Research and Training, where the first Nigerian research nuclear reactor is located.[6]
In 2007, he was on the international advisory committee for the international workshop on Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development in Africa, held at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in Nigeria.[7]
Death
On 30 January 2023 his son Faruk Ibrahim Umar announced his death.[8]
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- Ahmadu Bello University alumni
- Northern Illinois University alumni
- Alumni of the University of East Anglia
- Vice-chancellors of Nigerian universities
- Nigerian scientists
- People from Kano State
- International Atomic Energy Agency officials
- Academic staff of Bayero University Kano
- Academic staff of the Federal University of Technology, Minna
- Vice-chancellors of the Federal University of Technology, Minna