Abdus Salam
29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996
Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory, which merged the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces. He was the first Pakistani and first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize in science. He founded the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste to support science in developing countries.
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Life events
Abdus Salam was born in Punjab in what is now Pakistan.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe earned degrees in mathematics and physics at St John's College, Cambridge.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis doctoral work on quantum electrodynamics earned him early recognition.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe became professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe established the ICTP in Trieste, Italy, to foster physics research in developing nations.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe formulated a unified theory of the electromagnetic and weak interactions, independently of Weinberg and Glashow.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for the electroweak theory.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAbdus Salam died in Oxford after a long illness and was buried in Pakistan.
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