Jamal's role was to world science

Internationally renowned cosmologist Prof Jamal Nazrul Islam was one of the three Bangalee scientists who made fundamental contributions to the world science, poet Abul Momen said at a commemorative meeting on Thursday.
He said the two others were Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose and Satyendra Nath Bose.
Momen, also resident editor of the Bangla daily Prothom Alo, Chittagong, was addressing the meeting at Muslim Institute in Chittagong city, organised by Prof Jamal Nazrul Islam Nagarik Smaransava Parishad.
Nazrul Islam, professor emeritus of Chittagong University, who joined the university's mathematics department in 1984, passed away at the age of 74 on March 16.
Vice Chancellor of Premier University, Chittagong Prof Anupam Sen said the fame of Prof Jamal as a scientist spread rapidly throughout the world in 1983 after Cambridge University Press published his famous book, "The Ultimate Fate of the Universe".
He said Prof Jamal founded the Research Centre for Mathematical and Physical Sciences in CU, which had become an international standard research centre.
He always emphasised practice of science in the mother language, and left the luxuries of the West and came to Bangladesh in 1984, Prof Sen added.
Prof Jamal obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1968 and authored at least nine books in the field of relativity and cosmology, most of which were published by Cambridge University Press.
Salahuddin Kashem Khan, chairman of AK Khan Foundation, said Prof Jamal had every qualification to win a Nobel Prize.