Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first African-American woman appointed to the New York Court of Appeals, was found dead in the Hudson River. The investigation points to a possible suicide, two law ...

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: ...

Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam's religion. The body of New York State Court of Appeals Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first ...

Kenneth Abdus-Salam was inspired to continue the fight for civil rights, marching in other parts of the country with Dr. King, who he says was always humble.

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 ...