Abdul Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his contributions to the understanding of the interactions of elementary particles.
Abdul Salam was born in a small district, Jhang Sadar in Pakistan on Jan 29, 1926.
He was educated at the Punjab University and St. John College , Cambridge, where he was awarded his PhD. in 1952. He taught at the Punjab University (1951-1954) and briefly at Cambridge University before in 1957 to Imperial College, London as professor of physics.
Salam returned to Pakistan in 1951 with the intention of founding a school of research, and in 1954 he left his own country for a lectureship at Cambridge.
Salam is a particle physicist whose most successful work has been the unification of the weak and electromagnetic forces. Similar but independent results were published at the same time by Weinberg in the USA. Coming from the third world, Salam was acutely aware of intellectual isolation of promising young physicists and mathematicians.
In 1957, he was made director of the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, when it was established in 1964.
In International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, many young scientists form underdeveloped world have met to exchange ideas and learn new techniques.
Abdus Salam - Nobel Price Winner in Physics
