When was Abdus Salam born?

Abdus Salam was born on 29 January 1926 in Jhang.

Where did Abdus Salam study?

Abdus Salam was educated at Government College University, University of the Punjab, St John's College, Sanatan Dharma College.

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Abdus Salam

Theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient

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Mohammad Abdus Salam (; 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current". He was the first Pakistani, and second person from any Muslim country (after Anwar Sadat of Egypt) to win a Nobel Prize.

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Born: 29 January 1926 wd
Place of birth: Jhang wd
Died: 21 November 1996 wd
Place of death: Oxford wd
Citizenship: British Raj, Pakistan wd
Occupation: university teacher, theoretical physicist, physicist wd
Education: Government College University, University of the Punjab, St John's College, Sanatan Dharma College wd
Spouse: Louise Johnson wd

Awards wd

Atoms for Peace Award (1968)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1959)
Pride of Performance
Copley Medal (1990)
Royal Medal (1978)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1979)
Lomonosov Gold Medal (1983)
Hughes Medal (1964)
Matteucci Medal (1978)
Honorary doctors of Ghent University (1988)
Catalonia International Prize (1990)
TWAS fellow (1983)
National Order of Scientific Merit
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1971)
Nishan-e-Pakistan

About

Salam was scientific advisor to the Ministry of Science and Technology in Pakistan from 1960 to 1974, a position from which he played a major and influential role in the development of the country's science infrastructure. Salam contributed to numerous developments in theoretical and particle physics in Pakistan. He was the founding director of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO). For this, he is viewed as the "scientific father" of this program. In 1974, Abdus Salam departed from his country in protest after the Parliament of Pakistan unanimously passed a parliamentary bill declaring members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, to which Salam belonged, non-Muslim.

Salam's notable achievements include the Pati–Salam model, a Grand Unified Theory he proposed along with Jogesh Pati in 1974, magnetic photon, vector meson, work on supersymmetry and most importantly, electroweak theory, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Salam made a major contribution at Imperial College London. Salam made important contributions to the modern theory on neutrinos, as well as the work on modernising quantum mechanics. As a teacher and science promoter, Salam is remembered as a founder and scientific father of theoretical physics in Pakistan during his term as the chief scientific advisor to the president. Salam heavily contributed to the rise of Pakistani…

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When was Abdus Salam born?: Abdus Salam was born on 29 January 1926 in Jhang.
Where did Abdus Salam study?: Abdus Salam was educated at Government College University, University of the Punjab, St John's College, Sanatan Dharma College.

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