His Excellency Prof. Dr. Nabil Kazem Abdul Sahib, the minister of higher education and scientific research, in the presence of Prof. Dr. Munir Hamid al-Saadi, the rector of the University of Baghdad and members of the university council, has inaugurated a memorial to the late rector of our university the physicist Prof. Dr. Abdul Jabbar Abdullah. The minister stated in his speech that the University of Baghdad is very proud to commemorate its scientists for all the great achievements they have made to raise the ranking of higher education in Iraq.
For his part, the rector praised the work done by the head of the department of sculpture at the college of fine arts, Assist. Prof. Dr. Ihab Ahmed al-Assadi who has carved such an amazing statue of the late Dr. Abdul Jabbar Abdullah that reflected the possibilities and skills enjoyed by the Iraqi academic artists and their imagination in an aesthetic way. Dr. Ihab al-Assadi has made also a collection of well-known sculptures, such as that of the late Iraqi leader and prime minister Abd al-Karim Qasim that is located now in the Iraqi Media Network, as well as a bronze sculpture of the physician Dr. Kamal al-Samarrai at Kamal al-Samarrai Specialist Hospital in Baghdad, a sculpture of the Iraqi critic Dr. Inad Ghazwan at the University of al-Qadisiyah and a another sculpture of the Prof. Dr. Maher Musa al-Obaidi at the college of administration and economics, the University of Baghdad.
It is noteworthy that Dr. Abdul Jabbar Abdullah is an Iraqi physicist, born in Qal’at Saleh District, Maysan Governorate in 1911, where he completed his secondary study in Baghdad in 1930, received his bachelor’s degree in science from the American University of Beirut in 1930, then received his Ph.D degree in natural sciences (physics) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was appointed as the head of the department of physics at the High Teachers’ House in Baghdad in 1948. At that time he was nominated to be a researcher and professor at the New York University (1952-1955) and in 1958, he was appointed as Secretary-General and Vice-Rector of the University of Baghdad till 1959, when he was appointed as the rector. Prof. Dr. Abdul Jabbar Abdullah had numerous scientific research papers published in American and European journals and was a prominent member of many academic societies in America and Europe.
