A journalist once asked Salam how he felt about the fact that his extraordinary accomplishments had now branded Jhang as the birthplace of one of the greatest scientific minds of the century ...

Abdus Salam: driven to success. Genius in action A portrait of Abdus Salam taken in 1979, the year in which he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg. (Courtesy: ...

Abdus Salam remains, ... As Gordon Fraser writes in his biography, “If Abdus Salam had not been, the ‘theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interactions’ would still have happened.

Abdus Salam was a theoretical physicist, a prolific researcher, an advocate for science, and a Nobel Prize laureate. He won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for ...

Abdus Salam left Pakistan in 1974, in protest after the country's parliament unanimously passed a bill declaring members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, to which he belonged, non-Muslim.

In 1964, he founded the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy – which supports research excellence worldwide with a focus on physicists in the developing ...

Professor Abdus Salam was honored by India's Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). This came after he was insulted and humiliated in his own country. At AMU, he was given lifetime union membership and ...