Abdul Fattah, a leading energy expert who was the first Bangladeshi to work for International Atomic Energy Commission, is no more. He breathed his last on February 5, in Vienna, Austria after remaining in coma for six weeks following a heart attack. Before that he suffered serious injuries in a road accident in Ukraine last December. 

He was 65. He left behind two sons and a daughter, a host of relatives, friends, admirers and well wishers at home and abroad. He was laid to rest in Vienna on February 13. 

Abdul Fattah had been contributing for the Energy & Power since 2004. He was also the UN, EU & OPEC Correspondent of the only magazine in the sector in Bangladesh.

The EP family is deeply shocked at the sad demise of one of its respected members. The EP Editor Mollah Amzad Hossain expressed his profound shock at the death, expressed sympathies to the bereaved family and prayed for eternal peace of his soul.

Abdul Fattah was born in a respectable Muslim family in 1943. His father is late Abdur Razzaq and mother Rowshon Ara Kahtun.

In 1958, he passed Matriculation Examination from Begumganj High School in Noakhali. After passing Intermediate from Sadat College in Korotia, Tangail, he got admission to the Dhaka University and completed Honors and Masters in Physics.

Then he joined the engineering university (now BUET) as a lecturer. Fattah got Japan Government Scholarship and did MSS in Nuclear Engineering from Kyoto University in 1969. On his return from Japan, he joined the Dhaka University’s Physics Department as a lecturer.

In 1975, Abdul Fattah joined the International Atomic Energy Commission as a scientist under the UN and started living in Vienna. He retired from his job in 2003, but continued to live in Vienna and was involved with the Science Society, Social Community works and journalism.