Abdus Salam

Born: 1926-01-29 in Jhang Maghiāna, India (now Pakistan)

Gender: male

Field: Pakistani theoretical physicist (1926–1996)

Biography

Mohammad Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani, first Muslim scientist, and second person from any Muslim country to win a Nobel Prize.

Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979

Awarded on: 1979-10-15

"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"

Affiliations:

International Centre for Theoretical Physics – Trieste, Italy
Imperial College – London, United Kingdom

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