This article lists inventions and discoveries made by scientists with Pakistani nationality within Pakistan and outside the country, post the independence of Pakistan in 1947.
Chemistry
Development of the world's first workable plastic magnet at room temperature by organic chemist and polymer scientist Naveed Zaidi.[1][2][3]
Abdus Salam who along with Steven Weinberg independently predicted the existence of a subatomic particle now called the Higgs boson, Named after a British physicist who theorized that it endowed other particles with mass.[5]
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood a Pakistani nuclear engineer developed a device to detect heavy water leaks in nuclear steam cylinders while working at Knapp nuclear power reactor near Karachi in 1972.[12] The device is patent in his name under his initials SBM probe and is widely used in nuclear power plants to date.[13]
Medicine
Schematic representation of an implanted Ommaya reservoir.
A boot sectorcomputer virus dubbed (c)Brain, one of the first computer viruses in history,[16] was created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.[17][18]
The Human Development Index was devised by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq in 1990 and had the explicit purpose "to shift the focus of development economics from national income accounting to people centered policies".[21][22]
