M. A. Wazed Miah

M. A. Wazed Miah (Bengali: এম এ ওয়াজেদ মিয়া; 6 February 1942 – 9 May 2009) was a Bangladeshi physicist and the writer of a number of texts in physics and some political history books, a former chairman of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission and husband of former prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina.

[2] He passed the matriculation examination at Rangpur Zilla School in 1956, and earned his Intermediate Certificate at Rajshahi College in 1958.

[3] He followed in the footsteps of his eldest sister's son, physicist Abdul Qayyum Sarker, and took admittance into the Department of Physics, University of Dhaka.

[1] Wazed was engaged in research work at the New Delhi-based laboratory of the Atomic Energy Commission of India during 1975–1982, the period of exile of the remainder of the Mujib family after the bloody 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état.

He had for long suffered from high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney failure, diabetes, and asthma.

[8] An academic building is also constructed in his memory in Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University.