Facts: - birth name: rao rafi muhammad - fields: nuclear physics - birth date: 1 july 1903 - doctoral students: mustafa yar khan tahir hussain - death date: 04 december 1988 - awards: hilal-i-imtiaz -lrb- 1965 -rrb- sitara-i-khidmat -lrb- 1954 -rrb- -lrb- 2004 -rrb- nishan-e-imtiaz -lrb- 1998 -rrb- sitara-i-imtiaz - name: rafi muhammad chaudhry - death place: lahore , punjab province - birth place: kahnaur empire -lrb- now india -rrb- , rohtak district , east punjab british indian - known for: gamma atomic and nuclear physics in pakistan pakistan 's nuclear weapons and research programme beta decay , and his work in - workplaces: pakistan of nuclear science and technology -lrb- pinstech -rrb- government college atomic university -lrb- gcu -rrb- high tension laboratory -lrb- htl -rrb- energy aligarh muslim university university of birmingham university of california atomic commission energy research establishment -lrb- aere -rrb- -lrb- paec -rrb- pakistan institute - notable students: anwar tahir hussain chaudhri munawar chaudhri samar mubarakmand noor muhammad butt - citizenship: pakistan - image size: 200px - nationality: pakistan - alma mater: aligarh muslim university university of cambridge - occupation: professor and a physicist - doctoral advisor: ernest rutherford - footnotes: a of prominent pakistani nuclear scientists dr. samar mubarakmand and dr. close n. m. butt friend of dr. abdus salam and mentor - image: professor rafi muhammad chaudhry.jpg - religion: islam Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of rafi muhammad chaudhry .
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rafi muhammad chaudhry or r. m. chaudhry -lrb- -rrb- fpas hi , ni , si , skdt -lrb- 1 july 1903 -- 4 december 1988 -rrb- , was a pakistani nuclear physicist and a professor of particle physics at the government college university .he is widely regarded as having been the pioneer of experimental nuclear physics research in pakistan and , along with abdus salam and ishrat hussain usmani , one of the main creators of pakistan 's nuclear weapons research program in the 1970s .chaudhry , who served as professor of nuclear physics at government college university , was later referred to by dr. samar mubarakmand , one of his students , as '' the true father of the pakistan 's nuclear weapons programme '' .