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Salam, Abdus, 1926–96, Pakistani physicist. After attending Government College at Lahore, he received a Ph.D. from Cambridge (1952). He taught in Lahore for three years before returning to England, first teaching mathematics at Cambridge (1954–57), then moving to Imperial College in London, where he became a professor of theoretical physics. In the early 1960s he developed a theory to explain some behavior of the weak interactions weak interactions, actions between elementary particles mediated, or carried, by W and Z particles and that are responsible for nuclear decay. Weak interactions are one of four fundamental interactions in nature, the others being gravitation , electromagnetism, and ..... Click the link for more information. of elementary particles. For this work, in 1979 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Weinberg Weinberg, Steven, 1933–, American nuclear physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Princeton Univ., 1957. He helped develop important theories of electromagnetic and nuclear particle interaction that were experimentally verified in 1982–83 when Carlo Rubbia and ..... Click the link for more information. and Sheldon Glashow Glashow, Sheldon Lee (glăsh`ō), 1932–, American physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Harvard, 1959. ..... Click the link for more information. . To support Third World scientists and scientific research, Salam founded what is now the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics in 1964 and the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1983 (both in Trieste, Italy). He headed the International Center until his death. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Some, like Abdus Salam and Hoodbhoy, (1) reject the idea
altogether, while others accept it wholeheartedly without a clear
understanding of what the idea really means and entails for their
scientific work, but most working scientists have only a hazy notion of
the idea without any genuine intellectual commitment for or against it. Jagla of the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical
Physics in Trieste, Italy, draw upon earlier studies of how fractures of
the lava forming these structures penetrated downward. Pervez Hoodbhoy's credentials as a scientist are attested to
not only by the cover blurb, but by the fact that so distinguished a
particle physicist as Mohammed Abdus Salam consented to write the
foreword to this book. |
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