From Chak 29 to Dinkytown

About the Book

Professor Faiz M. Khan is a world-renowned medical physicist. He has a passion for delving into cosmology, evolution, and life philosophies. In this book, he recounts his childhood and early education in a small village in Pakistan, his college days in the ancient cities of Multan and Lahore, and his pursuit of getting the highest academic degree that his father had predicted when he was a child. He fulfilled that prediction by receiving his PhD from the University of Minnesota. Later, his sheer determination to excel in his academic career earned him the highest award from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, namely the William D. Coolidge Gold Medal. In this book, Professor Khan writes the story of his life. It is his account of both the how and the why of living. From the trajectory of his life, one can surmise that simple beginnings are not a handicap in life.

About the Author

Faiz M. Khan was a Fulbright scholar and received his doctorate degree in Biophysics from the University of Minnesota. He joined the University of Minnesota as faculty in 1968 and became full professor in 1979. He retired as professor emeritus in 2001. He has published eleven books and over eighty research articles.