The Saga of Abdus Salam
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Scientists & Inventors
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ORIGINS & BACKGROUND
Profile & Early Foundations
Mohammad Abdus Salam (; 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate.
THE JOURNEY & BREAKTHROUGHS
Major Works & Significant Milestones
He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow "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".
Key Milestone & Career Defining Moment
He was the first Pakistani, and second person from any Muslim country (after Anwar Sadat of Egypt) to win a Nobel Prize.
