Abdus Salam

Prof. Dr. Abdus Salam (January 29, 1926–November 21, 1996) received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work in electroweak theory which is the mathematical and conceptual synthesis of the electromagnetic and weak interactions, the latest stage reached until now on the path towards a unification theory describing the fundamental forces of nature. Salam, Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg arrived at the theory independently and shared the prize. The validity of the theory was ascertained through experiments carried out at the Super Proton Synchrotron facility at CERN in Geneva, particularly the discovery of the W and Z bosons.

External link

• The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1979
• The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics http://www.ictp.it/pages/mission/salam.html
• Personalia at the ICTP Library http://library.ictp.it/SALAM/
• TWAS, formerly Third World Academy of Sciences http://www.twas.org/AboutTWAS.html
• Abdus Salam http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/abdus_salam.html
• their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including inter alia the prediction of the weak neutral