Am Harun Ar Rashid AM Harun ar Rashid is a former professor of physics at Dhaka University, a Kali Narayan Scholar and a recipient of the Swadhinata Padak. LEST WE FORGET / The first nuclear physicist of Bangladesh 24 September 2017 Nuclear physics was first introduced in Bangladesh by an energetic and amiable young man who returned from England after obtaining his PhD - Dr Anwar Hossain. 24 September 2017