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Abdul Jabbar Abdullah

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cites Abdullah as a mentor, and credits him with helping Hazma obtain admission into MIT to pursue a master's degree in nuclear engineering after Hamza's initial rejection. Hazma later became part of Iraq's nuclear research program, before defecting to the United States and testifying on the program
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forces, who charged him with being a political dissident. He was released from jail in October, although the charges were not dropped until several years later. Owing to mounting international pressure, he was eventually allowed to leave the country, and went to the United States. He took a position
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In 1949, Abdullah returned to Iraq and joined the faculty of The Higher Normal College, where he served as chairman of the physics department. When the college, along with other Iraqi universities, was consolidated into the
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to become an educator and researcher. After several years as the President of the University of Baghdad, Abdullah left Iraq amid a period of social unrest, and lived in the United States for the remainder of his life.
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in 1958, the Founding Council was replaced with a permanent University Council, and Abdullah was named the first president of the University of Baghdad.
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Abdullah has published multiple books on atmospheric sciences, and was the editor and publisher of Iraq's sole science journal in the 1950s,
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by hand in 1928; as of 2010, that copy of the Ginza Rabba belonged to the Elmanahi family in New York state, United States.
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and Haitham Abdullah (born 1947), were the first Mandaeans born in the United States. Sinan Abdullah is a dentist in
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Internal Gravity Waves of Finite Amplitude in a Stratified Incompressible Atmosphere: a Quasi-characteristic Method
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He married Kismet Inaissi al-Fayadh in 1943, with whom he had a daughter and three sons. His two twin sons,
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Abdullah is highly regarded in Iraq, where his 100th birthday was commemorated in the
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Bombmaker: The Terrifiying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons
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In 1966, Abdullah joined the faculty of the Atmospheric Science department at the
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Abdul Jabbar, Abdullah (1953). "Head-on collision between two pressure jumps".
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He studied in his hometown elementary school, built during the
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
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and owned various Mandaean manuscripts that were analyzed by
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Qal'at Saleh
Ottoman Iraq
Albany, New York
USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sinan Abdullah
Abdullah bar Sam
Wave theory
Meteorology
University of Baghdad
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York University
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Arabic
wave theory
meteorologist
University of Baghdad
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Iraq
Mandaean
priestly
Qal'at Saleh
Qal'at Saleh District
Maysan Province
Ganzibra
Abdullah, son of Ganzibra Sam
Mandaean baptismal name
Abdullah bar Sam
Mandaean priest

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