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Abdus Salam
Mohammad Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow "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". He was the first Pakistani, first Muslim scientis…
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science · Pakistani theoretical physicist (1926–1996) · university teacher · theoretical physicist · physicist · also Abdus Salam, Mohammad Abdus Salam, Muhammad Abdus Salam, Salam
Born 29 January 1926 · Died 21 November 1996 · Q28189
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 3 entries
India.com: Professor Abdus Salam, man who was humiliated in Pakistan but honoured at India’s AMU: A Tale of respect and recognition
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Published “Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” in The Lancet — cited 4,572 times.
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Published “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050” in The Lancet — cited 3,362 times.
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2021· 1 entry
The Daily Star: Abdus Salam: The editor who laid the foundations of English journalism in Bangladesh
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2020· 3 entries
A group of students belonging to the State Youth Parliament desecrated an image of Salam that was present at a college in Gujranwala, while chanting slogans against the Ahmadiyya Muslim community
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Published “Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 8,053 times.
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Published “Review of Particle Physics” in Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics — cited 3,759 times.
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2018· 4 entries
Published “Review of Particle Physics” in Physical Review D — cited 5,730 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 3,918 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 6,199 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,011 times.
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2017· 1 entry
The Express Tribune: Grieving Abdus Salam and the Muslim age of darkness
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2016· 1 entry
The Express Tribune: Honouring Abdus Salam
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2015· 1 entry
The Academy of Young Researchers and Scholars, Lahore, renamed its library as the "Abdus Salam Library"
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2014· 1 entry
Hindustan Times: Abdus Salam, the Nobel laureate Pak chose to forget
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2012· 2 entries
Published “FastJet user manual” in The European Physical Journal C — cited 4,108 times.
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Published “Review of Particle Physics” in Physical Review D — cited 5,100 times.
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2008· 3 entries
Indian scholar Ravi Singh noted in his book The Military Factor in Pakistan that, "in 1978, Abdus Salam with PAEC officials, paid a secret visit to China, and was instrumental in initiating industrial nuclear cooperation
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Published “The anti-<i>k</i><sub><i>t</i></sub>jet clustering algorithm” in Journal of High Energy Physics — cited 4,898 times.
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In an opinion piece, Daily Times called Salam "one of the greatest scientists Pakistan has ever produced"
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2004· 1 entry
Two years after the producers had conceived of the idea
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1998· 1 entry
The Government of Pakistan issued a commemorative stamp to honour Salam as part of its "Scientists of Pakistan" series
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1997· 1 entry
The scientists at ICTP commemorated Salam and renamed ICTP as the "Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics"
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1996· 3 entries
Died 1996-11-21.
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“Original: «From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.”
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“In the Holy Book of Islam, Allah says: "Thou seest not, in the creation of the All-merciful any imperfection, Return thy gaze, seest thou any fissure. Then Return thy gaze, again and again. Thy gaze, Comes back to thee dazzled, aweary."This in effect is, the faith of all physicists; the deeper we seek, the more is our wonder excited, the more is the dazzlement for our gaze.”
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society (1993).
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded Catalonia International Prize (1990).
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Won Copley Medal (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
Won Edinburgh Medal (1989).
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctors of Ghent University (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Associate Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Science and Technology of China (1986).
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Marcel Grossmann Award (1985).
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1983· 3 entries
Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1983).
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Awarded TWAS fellow (1983).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (1983).
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1981· 1 entry
Salam became a founding member of the World Cultural Council
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1980· 2 entries
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1980).
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Salam became a foreign fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
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1979· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — 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.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for Weinberg-Salam theory (1979).
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Salam said: Physicists believed there are four fundamental forces of nature; the gravitational force, the weak and strong nuclear force, and the electromagnetic force
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Salam was awarded a third of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Glashow and Weinberg, For their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, inclu
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1978· 3 entries
Won Royal Medal (1978).
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Won Matteucci Medal (1978).
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Won John Torrence Tate Medal (1978).
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1976· 1 entry
Won Guthrie Medal and Prize (1976).
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1974· 6 entries
Founded the International Nathiagali Summer College (INSC) to promote science in Pakistan
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Abdus Salam departed from his country in protest after the Parliament of Pakistan unanimously passed a parliamentary bill declaring members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, to which Salam belonged, non-Muslim
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Magnetic photon, vector meson, work on supersymmetry and most importantly, electroweak theory, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize
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The Pakistan parliament made the Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan that declared Ahmadis to be non-Muslim
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Published “Lepton number as the fourth "color"” in Physical Review D — cited 3,228 times.
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Muhammad Hafeez Qureshi was appointed head of the Directorate of Technical Development (DTD) in PAEC
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1973· 1 entry
Salam proposed the idea of establishing an annual college to promote scientific activities in the country to the chairman of PAEC, Munir Khan, who accepted and fully supported the idea
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1972· 1 entry
Salam began to work with Indian-American theoretical physicist Jogesh Pati
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1971· 2 entries
Awarded J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1971).
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The United States National Academy of Sciences in 1979, and the American Philosophical Society in 1992
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Atoms for Peace Award (1968).
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1966· 1 entry
Salam carried out work on the magnetic monopole
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1965· 1 entry
The plutonium Pakistan Atomic Research Reactor (PARR-I) went critical under Salams' leadership
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1964· 2 entries
Won Hughes Medal (1964).
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Salam founded the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, in Italy and served as its director until 1993
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1962· 2 entries
Won Maxwell Medal and Prize (1962).
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Salam published his theoretical work on the vector meson
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1961· 2 entries
Approached President Khan to set up the country's first national space agency, thus on 16 September 1961 the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission was established, with Salam as its first director
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Salam began to work with John Clive Ward on symmetries and electroweak unification
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1959).
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Adams Prize (1958).
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1953· 1 entry
Salam was unable to establish a research institute in Lahore, as he faced strong opposition from his peers
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1952· 1 entry
Was appointed professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics at the neighbouring University of the Punjab
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1951· 2 entries
Salam returned to Lahore at the Government College University as a professor of mathematics, where he remained till 1954
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It had already gained him an international reputation and the Adams Prize
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1950· 2 entries
Received the Smith's Prize from Cambridge University for the most outstanding pre-doctoral contribution to Physics
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“the most outstanding pre-doctoral contribution to Physics”
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1949· 1 entry
With a Double First-Class Honours in Mathematics and Physics
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1944· 1 entry
His mathematics exam results set a new Punjab record
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1942· 2 entries
Passed his FA examinations with the highest scores in the province
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Salam moved to Lahore to study at Government College
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1926· 1 entry
Born 1926-01-29.
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