Maqbular Rahman Sarkar ( bn, মকবুলার রহমান সরকার; 1928–19 May 1985), popularly known as M. R. Sarkar, was a

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academic who served as the tenth

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of the

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Early life and education

Sarkar was born in 1928, to a

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family of Sarkars in the village of Khorddakomarpur in

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(formerly under

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), Bengal Province. After completing his primary education in his village, he enrolled at the Tulshighat Kashinath High School from where he passed his matriculation in 1944. He then moved on to study at the

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in Rangpur where he passed his intermediates in 1946. He completed his

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from

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in 1847, and graduated as

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from the

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in 1950.

Career

Sarkar joined the Department of Physics at the

as a lecturer in 1951. He received from the

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his

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qualification in that year. Under the East Pakistan Education Service, he joined the Rajshahi College Physics Department and served as professor until 1963. From 1969 to 1972, he was working as a visiting professor at the

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. He then returned to the

, and founded the department of Applied Physics and Electronics, becoming the department's founding head professor too. From 27 February 1981 to 22 February 1982, he served as the tenth

of the University of Rajshahi.

Death

Sarkar died on 19 May 1985.

References

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