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Professor Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate ( January 29 , 1926 – November 21 , 1996 ) was a Pakistani Theoretical Physicist who received the Nobel Prize In Physics in 1979 for his work in Electroweak Theory which is the Mathematical and conceptual synthesis of the Electromagnetic and Weak interactions, the latest stage reached until now on the path towards a unification theory describing the fundamental forces of nature. Abdus Salam, Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg arrived at the theory independently and shared the Nobel Prize. The validity of the theory was ascertained through experiments carried out at the Super Proton Synchrotron facility at CERN in Geneva , particularly, through the discovery of the W And Z Bosons . Abdus Salam was phenomenally brilliant as a student. According to his Nobel Prize biography, ''When he cycled home from Lahore , at the age of 14, after gaining the highest marks ever recorded for the Matriculation Examination at the University Of The Punjab , the whole town 1 turned out to welcome him.'' His first paper was written as a student there in 1943 and concerned Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan .[http://library.ictp.it/SALAM/author/authsp.html During the early 1970 's, Abdus Salam played a very significant role in establishing the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and SUPARCO - Pakistan's Space Research Agency. Founder and Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP ), Trieste , Italy from 1964 to December 1993 , Salam was a firm believer that "scientific thought is the common heritage of mankind", and that the developing nations needed to help themselves and invest into their own scientists to boost development and fill the gap between the rich North and the poor South of the planet, thus contributing to a more peaceful world. Salam also founded the Third World Academy of Sciences ( TWAS ) and was instrumental in the creation of a number of international centres dedicated to the advancement of science and technology. From 1956, he was Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Imperial College London . Abdus Salam died at 70 in Oxford in 1996 , after a long illness. He was buried in Rabwah, Jhang, Pakistan . Professor Abdus Salam was a devoted Ahmadi Muslim . Due to the political pressure of the Muslims in Pakistan (mainstream Muslim scholars do not regard Ahmadis as muslims), Abdus Salam has often not been officially honoured by the Government of Pakistan despite the fact that he is the first Nobel Laureate of Pakistan. NOTES |
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