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Abdul Qadeer Khan, more commonly known as A. Q. Khan, is a Pakistani physicist.

Early Life

Khan was born in 1935 or 1936 to a Muslim family in Bhopal, India. In 1952, the Khan family moved to Pakistan.

As a young man, Khan went to Europe to study at the Technical University of Berlin. He later earned a master’s degree from Delft University of Technology and a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven.

In 1972, Khan went to work at URENCO, a nuclear fuel company, on uranium enrichment plants in the Netherlands.

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After India tested its first atomic bomb in 1974, Khan contacted Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to offer his services for the Pakistani nuclear program. Khan stayed in the Netherlands for another year to gather information before returning to Pakistan in December 1975 along with stolen gas centrifuge blueprints.

The Dutch government opened an investigation into Khan and sentenced him in absentia to four years