Chief researcher of the High Energy Physics Laboratory of the Physics and Technology Institute of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences.

Kadir Gafurovich Gulamov (born 1945) is an Uzbek scientist, physicist, academician of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, statesman. In 1963 he entered Tashkent State University, and in 1967 he was sent to the LHE JINR (Dubna). He was mentored by Bruno Pontecorvo, Mikhail Meshcheryakov, Alexander Baldin, Mikhail Podgoretsky, Valentin Grishin. In 1968 he was sent to the Laboratory of High Energies headed by S.A. Azimov at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences. In 1971, the laboratory was transferred to the Physics and Technology Institute (later the Scientific Production Association "Physics-Sun"). In (1989-1999) - General Director of the Association, in (1991-1999) – concurrently Chief Scientific Secretary of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences. In (1999-2000) – Deputy Minister of Defense – Head of the Military Forces Academy of the Republic of Uzbekistan (MFA RU), in (2000-2005) – the first civilian Defense Minister of the Country, then - the State Adviser to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Since 2006 – leading researcher at the SPA "Physics-Sun".

Scientific activity
Scientific interests are: multiple production of particles in collisions of hadrons and nuclei with nuclei at the energies of contemporary accelerators. Leading scientist for a number of emulsion experiments conducted at CERN (Switzerland), Fermi and Brookhaven Laboratories (USA), JINR and IHEP (Protvino, Russian Federation). He obtained a large volume of experimental data on collisions of hadrons and nuclei with nuclei in the entire range of energies of contemporary accelerators. He discovered compensation effects for A-dependences of the characteristics of multiple processes on nuclei associated with rescattering. He proposed and implemented methods of correlation analysis to search for collective effects in collisions with nuclei, observed dynamic correlations between particles from different kinematic regions, demonstrated that multiple particle production in central collisions of nuclei is multifractal in nature. He carried out a critical analysis of a number of theoretical approaches to the processes of particle production on nuclei, so that some of them (for example, tube models based on the hydrodynamic model, cluster models) either fell out of use or acquired established limits of their applicability, which allowed researchers to determine general mechanisms of such processes, predominant mechanisms in various kinematic regions of collisions and played an important role in the search for collective effects. Upon initiative and supervision of KG Gulamov, the Institute of Materials Science of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences (1993) and the Uzbek scientific and educational network UZSCINET (1995) were established. In 1997 and 2010 he proposed to organize the International Solar Energy Center, thus in 2013 the International Solar Energy Institute was established in Tashkent.

He has more than 300 scientific publications, majority of which is published in internationally renowned scientific journals.

E mail: gulamov@uzsci.net