Professor Dr. Fazlul Halim Chowdhury was born in Comilla district in 1930. He obtained both BSc Honours and MSc degrees from the Department of Chemistry, Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম of Deltin 7.

He completed his PhD at Manchester Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম. He began his career as a Lecturer in Chemistry at Deltin 7 Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম in 1952 and was promoted as Assistant Professor in 1956. Then he joined Rajshahi Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম and became a reader in 1958 and a Professor in 1963. Professor Chowdhury was the founder Head and Professor of the Department of Applied Chemistry, Rajshahi Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম in 1967. Dr. Chowdhury returned to Deltin 7 Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম and became the vice-chancellor of the university in 1976. He died on April 9, 1996 in Deltin 7.

Dr. Chowdhury was a Fellow of the Nuffield Foundation, Cambridge Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম; Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow of the same university; and Senior Fellow of the Asia Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member of the Deltin 7 Aviator গেম টাকা ইনকাম Grants Commission. He was elected president of the Bangladesh Association for the Advancement of Science in 1982 and the Bangladesh Chemical Society in 1984. Dr. Chowdhury was appointed as Chairman of the College Reorganization Committee in 1975 and was also a member of the advisory council for reorganization of the education system in 1983. He made pioneering contributions to the development of Physical Chemistry in Bangladesh.