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Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (6) K-L (297) K (173) Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (11) M-N (333) M (172) Maxwell Medal and Prize (4) N (205) Nishan-e-Pakistan (2) O-P (364) P (242) Pride of Performance (1) complete name: Abdus Salam nobel prize: physics award year: 1979 together with: Sheldon Lee Glashow together with: Steven Weinberg prize share: Prize share: 1/3 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 was awarded jointly to Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg "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." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Muhammed family name: Salam occupation: physicist occupation: university teacher occupation: theoretical physicist field of work: quantum field theory work location: Imperial College London, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, United Kingdom description: Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. A major figure in 20th century theoretical physics, he shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani and first Muslim to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the second from an Islamic country to receive any Nobel Prize (after Anwar Sadat of Egypt). Salam was a top level science advisor to the Government of Pakistan from 1960 to 1974, a position from which he played a major and influential role in the development of the country's science infrastructure. Salam was responsible not only for contributing to major developments in theoretical and particle physics, but also for promoting the broadening and deepening of high calibre scientific research in his country. He was the founding director of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), and responsible for the establishment of the Theoretical Physics Group (TPG) in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). As Science Advisor, Salam played an integral role in Pakistan's development of the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and may have contributed as well to development of atomic bomb project of Pakistan in 1972; for this, he is viewed as the "scientific father" of this programme. In 1974, Abdus Salam departed from his country, in protest, after the Pakistan Parliament passed a controversial parliamentary bill declaring the Ahmadiyya movement, to which Salam belonged, as not-Islamic. In 1998, following the country's nuclear tests, the Government of Pakistan issued a commemorative stamp, as a part of "Scientists of Pakistan", to honour the services of Salam. Salam's major and notable achievements include the Pati-Salam model, magnetic photon, vector meson, Grand Unified Theory, work on supersymmetry and, most importantly, electroweak theory, for which he was awarded the most prestigious award in physics - the Nobel Prize. Salam made a major contribution in quantum field theory and in the advancement of Mathematics at Imperial College London. With his student, Riazuddin, Salam made important contributions to the modern theory on neutrinos, neutron stars and black holes, as well as the work on modernising the quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. As a teacher and science promoter, Salam is remembered as a founder and scientific father of mathematical and theoretical physics in Pakistan during his term as the chief scientific advisor to the president. Salam heavily contributed to the rise of Pakistani physics to the physics community in the world. Even until shortly before his death, Salam continued to contribute to physics, and to advocate for the development of science in Third-World countries. pronunciation: (Punjabi, Urdu: محمد عبد السلام; pronounced [əbd̪ʊs səlɑm]), image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/summary/> date birth: 1926 date death: 1996 usual name: Abdus Salam
