Ibrahim Umar (physicist)

Ibrahim Khalil Umar was a Nigerian scientist and university administrator. He was vice-chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria from 1979 to 1986. He held a B.Sc. in physics and mathematics from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, a M.Sc. in physics from Northern Illinois University, USA and a Ph.D. (1974) in physics at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. In 1976, he became the first Nigerian academic in physics to teach at Bayero University. In 1978, he served on the national constitutional assembly that drafted the Constitution of the 2nd Republic.