এ প্যাসেজ টু ফ্রিডম (Hardcover)

Dr. Abdul Matin was born in 1940 at Mohanganj, Netrokona. He graduated in electrical engineering in 1961 from Ahsanullah Engineering College (now BUET), Dhaka. He obtained a D.I.C from Imperial College, London in 1963 and a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of Liverpool, England in 1965. He received training in Sweden, Austria and USA. He served as director of the nuclear power division of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission in Karachi and was a member of the safety committee of the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant Dr. Matin served as chief engineer at the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) and was the first project director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) at Savar, Dhaka. He taught nuclear engineering at the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. On a part-time basis, he taught at BUET, IUT and IUB in Dhaka. He attended numerous seminars and conferences, including the IAEA General Conference in Vienna in 1974. Dr. Matin regularly writes Op-Ed columns in national newspapers. He published a large number of technical papers and authored five books: “A Passage to Freedom," "Rooppur and the Power Crisis," "Tribute to Bangabandhu and Other Essays, " "Around Half the World in Sixty Years" and “Bangladesh: A Perspective of Dynamic Resilience."