Curriculm Vitae of Khidhir A. A. Hamza

Dr. Khidhir Hamza worked as a consultant for ISIS during 1997-1999. He provided a copy of his CV, reproduced below, as of 1997.

ISIS is making available the CV's or brief biographies of those individuals whose experiences are discussed in ISIS's project on understanding the lessons of export control case studies. Additional CV's will posted to the ISIS web site as they become available.

Dr. Hamza is no longer associated with ISIS, and we do not have any forwarding information about how to reach him.

Curriculm Vitae

Date of Birth: January 18, 1939
Marital Status: Married, three sons

Qualifications:

Ph.D. (Physics, 1968), Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Theoretical Physics (nuclear), Dissertation: Coulomb Forces in the Three Body Problem
M.Sc. (Physics, 1965), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
B.Sc. (Physics, 1960), University of Baghdad, Iraq

Employment History:

1968 - 1969 -- Post Doctoral Instructor, Physics Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

1969 - 1970 -- Associate Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Fort Valley State College, Fort Valley, GA (subjects: Physics (Introduction and Intermediate Laboratory), Topology, Math. Ana., Mod. Algebra)

1970 - 1990 -- Iraq Atomic Energy Commission

• 1970 - 1972 -- Researcher, Head of the Theory Group, Physics Department, Nuclear Research Center
  
• 1972 - 1975 -- Senior Res., Chairman of the Physics Department, Nuclear Research Center
  
• 1975 - 1978 -- Head, Fuel Division, Head, Theoretical Section (1975-1980)
  
• 1980 - 1985 -- Chairman, Theoretical Department, Center for Research and Development, Duties: Cascade calculations for the uranium diffusion project; barrier and diffuser modeling
  
• 1985 - 1987 -- Science Advisor to the Chairman, Inspector General of the Atomic Energy Commission
  
• 1987 -- Director General in charge of Weaponization1 (President's Special Security Forces)
  
• 1988 - 1990 -- In charge of Theory and Modeling of the Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) Project; Manager in charge of the Iraqi delegation to Poland. DPF construction supervision and training (May - Nov 1989)
  

1991 - 1993 -- Lecturer, Computer Science Department, Al-Mansour University College, Baghdad, Iraq (subjects: Numerical Analysis, Operations Research (Lab))

1994 - 1995 -- Associate Professor of Physics, 7th April University, Alzawiya, Libya (subjects: Special Relativity, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence (Prolog, Comp.Sc.Dp.))

Scientific Activities:

• Supervised 15 M.Sc. theses; co-supervised 1 Ph.D. Dissertation.
  
• Member of the Iraqi National Space Committee (established Iraq's space center).
  
• Represented Iraq at the UN Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (1979- 1983).
  
• Delegate for Iraq, UN Working Group subcommittee of the Space Committee.
  
• Member for Iraq of the International Committee for Space Research (COSPAR) (1984 - 1990).
  
• Head of the Iraqi delegation to the second UN Conference on Space, Vienna, 1985.
  
• Member of the Iraqi delegation to the International Atomic Energy Agency (1972 - 1975).
  
• Head of the Iraqi delegation to France to finalize the purchase of a research reactor.
  
• Choice of site and design of preliminary planning for Al-Atheer nuclear weapons development project as Director General of Weaponization under General Hussein Kamel.
  
• Frequent attendance and participation in the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (1974 - 1985).

Teaching:

University of Baghdad and Al-Mustansiriya University (1970 - 1994); Graduate and undergraduate courses in quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, mathematical physics, mechanics, and electromagnetism.

Publications:

• "Coulomb Forces in the Three Body Problem," Physical Review 181, 1494 (1969), with S. Edwards.
  
• "Exact off-Shell Formulation of Three-Particle Scattering with Coulomb and Separable Potentials," Arab Journal of Physics, vol. 1, 1980, p. 50.
  
• Two books on Atomic Energy (in Arabic), published by the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission, 1975, 1984.

¹ "Weaponization" is a term used to describe a set of processes to research, develop, test, and manufacture nuclear explosives or weapons using a supply of fissile material. The program headed by Hamza was not involved in producing the fissile material, but planned to use a supply of highly enriched uranium that was to be produced in other, far larger, efforts headed by Jaffar Dhia Jaffar and Mahdi Shakir Ghali al Ubeidy. [Back to the text]