Branch of Science Physicists Nationality Pakistani ... Physics Prize
Salam, Abdus (1926-1996)
Pakistani physicist born in Jhang, Pakistan in 1926 and was educated at Panjab University, St. John's College, Cambridge, and Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1952. He then returned to Pakistan where he served as Professor at Government College, Lahore and Panjab University. In 1957 he was appointed as Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College and returned to England. He was director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, from 1964 to December 1993. Salam studying electroweak theory, which is the mathematical and conceptual synthesis of the electromagnetic and weak interactions. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics with Glashow and Weinberg . Salam died in Oxford on 21 November 1996 after a long illness. Glashow Weinberg
Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics. "Professor Abdus Salam, 1926-1996: Nobel Laureate in Physics." http://www.ictp.trieste.it/ProfSalam/ | |
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