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3 unusual facts about Abdus Salam


Department of Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University

Between 1966-1968, Abdus Salam's doctoral students had returned to Pakistan after earning their doctorates and experience.

Noor Muhammad

Noor Muhammad joined International Centre for Theoretical Physics on the request of prominent theoretical physics and nobel laureate in Physics Dr. Prof. Abdus Salam.

Robert Delbourgo

His Ph.D. was obtained under the supervision of Professor Abdus Salam (who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979).


Andrzej Trautman

Later, he was influenced by scientific contacts with André Lichnerowicz, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Chen Ning Yang and Abdus Salam.

Bangladesh Awami League

In 1952, the Awami Muslim League and its student wing played an instrumental role in the Bengali Language Movement, during which Pakistani security forces fired upon thousands of protesting students demanding Bengali be declared an official language of Pakistan and famously killing a number of students including Abdus Salam, Rafiq Uddin Ahmed, Abul Barkat and Abdul Jabbar.

Carlo Rubbia

The data on the intermediate vector bosons confirm the predictions included in the "electroweak" theory, which gained the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics to Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam.

Edward Bouchet Abdus Salam Institute

The institute is in the name of two great persons in the world known as Edward Bouchet and Abdus Salam.

Einstein Wrote Back

Einstein Wrote Back is a memoir by Canadian physicist John Moffat which documents his encounters with various other famous physicists, including Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Fred Hoyle, Wolfgang Pauli, Paul Dirac, Abdus Salam, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, as well as his work at Imperial College London, Princeton University, CERN, and the University of Toronto.

Jeffrey Goldstone

With Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg, he proved that in such theories zero-mass particles (Nambu-Goldstone bosons) must exist.

Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology

Establishing the world class physics research institute, roughly equivalent to CERN, in Pakistan, was a dream of dr. Abdus Salam who initiated the establishment of PINSTECH.

Shawkat Ali

The Language Movement reached its climax in 1952 with the indiscriminate shooting by the police at protesters and killing four young men - Abdus Salam, Rafiq Uddin Ahmed, Abul Barkat and Abdul Jabbar.


see also

Abdus Salam Medal

The Abdus Salam Medal (Official:Abdus Salam Medal for Science and Technology), is an award presented by TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world in Trieste.

Giorgi Dvali

Before joining the NYU faculty in 1998, he worked at two renowned international research centers: the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and later at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Bangladesh Observer

Hamidul Huq Choudhury and Abdus Salam were also arrested at this time by the Pakistan Government to stifle the voice of the press.