

Īntaranya kejayaan menjadi orang pertama di dunia yang menemui tempat membiaknya Human Herpes Virus-7. Beliau diganti oleh Datuk Rafiah Salim sebagai Naib Canselor Universiti Malaya ke-9 mulai. Zin yang akan tamat tempoh perkhidmatannya. Hashim Yaacob (lahir pada 1949) merupakan Naib Canselor Universiti Malaya ke-8 dari hingga menggantikan Profesor Datuk Dr. He strongly believes that development programmes must be sincere so that poverty can be eliminated as described in his pantun: His relentless work on rural poverty and his study of the deleterious effects of fragmentation of estates established his reputation as a scholar. He explained the emergence and roots of poverty and how exploitation was the key to the problem and that market reform is essential to overcome the poverty problem. Aziz is well known for his Sarong Index attached to the Poverty and Rural Development in Malaysia. The term The Renaissance Man is a most befitting and appropriate description of him who has multidimensional and varied interests. Aziz has had a significant effect, since the decade of the fifties, on the growth and development of the nation in general and the University of Malaya in particular. Aziz: The Renaissance Man is a collection of essays by essentially former colleagues and subordinates in attempting to provide a canvas of a man who has been described as a polymath and a dominant personality in the intellectual and cultural life of our beloved country Malaysia.
