Jamal Nazrul Islam was born on 24 February 1939 in Jhenaidah. His ancestral home is at Jujkhola Narayanhat of Fatikchhari Upazila of Chittagong District, East Bengal. His father’s name is Khan Bahadur Sirajul Islam and was a sub-judge in British India. Because of his father’s job, Islam spent his early school years in Calcutta.
He studied at Chittagong Collegiate School and College until ninth grade and then he went to Lawrence College, Murree in West Pakistan to pass the Senior Cambridge and Higher Senior Cambridge exams. He received a BSc degree from St. Xavier’s College at the University of Calcutta.
He was a Bangladeshi mathematical physicist and cosmologist. He was a professor at the University of Chittagong, served as a member of the advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, and member of the syndicate at Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology until his death.
