Abdus Salam - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1979
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Abdus Salam

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1979
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
Together with: Sheldon Glashow , Steven Weinberg
Citizenship
British Raj British Raj Pakistan Pakistan
Languages
Urdu, English, Punjabi
date of birth
1/29/1926
place of birth
Jhang
date of death
11/21/1996
place of death
Oxford
Lived
70 years

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educated at
  • University of the Punjab
    • academic degree: Master of Arts
  • Government College University
    • academic degree: Bachelor of Arts
  • St John's College
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
  • Sanatan Dharma College
member of
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 1971
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1971
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1979
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 3/19/1959
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 5/12/1981
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 11/22/1979
  • The World Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1983
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission
  • Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
  • Edward Bouchet Abdus Salam Institute
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
employer
  • St John's College
    • end time: 1957
    • start time: 1954
  • Government College University
    • end time: 1954
    • start time: 1951
  • Columbia University
  • University of Cambridge
  • Imperial College London
  • Ministry of Science and Technology
  • University of Chicago
  • International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • University of Houston
  • University of the Punjab
  • University of Karachi
doctoral student
  • Muneer Ahmad Rashid
  • Robert Delbourgo
  • John Strathdee
  • Qaisar Shafi
  • I. R. Gatland
  • A. Syed
  • William Raymond Franklin
  • Tin Maung Aye
  • James F. Boyce
  • Michael Duff
  • Christopher Isham
  • Penelope Anne Rowlatt
  • John Moffat
  • Ronald Shaw
  • Masud Ahmad
  • John Clayton Taylor
  • Riazuddin
  • Daniel Akyeampong
  • Peter West
  • Yuval Ne'eman
  • Ali Chamseddine
  • Kamaluddin Ahmed
  • Fayyazuddin
  • Partha Ghose
  • Alan J. Macfarlane
  • Ghulam Murtaza
  • Walter Gilbert
  • Ray Streater
  • John Polkinghorne
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • theoretical physicist
field of work
  • quantum field theory
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